In the trailer of Telusu Kada, Siddu Jonnalagadda's character has a profound insight: Don't expose your vulnerabilities before your female partner. This is a time-tested piece of advice for men in general. Women not only dislike weak men who shed tears but are also proud of their dislike. Even the women who conform to feminism and shed truckloads of copious tears want strong men who find tears insulting to their masculinity. Director Neeraja Kona has a point when she lets her male protagonist mouth a line on a dark secret of female psychology. Since the director is not a male, Woke critics can't play gender wars over Telusu Kada.
But it is too early to say whether Telusu Kada is going to be ideologically valid and morally acceptable. It might turn out to be a culturally rootless film about a maverick male who is in love with two women at once. He embarrasses them, annoys them and probably emotionally abuses them in turns. Will he ever confess to his flaws? Will the film acknowledge his flaws, if any? Will it glorify him?
Telusu Kada's trailer is a winner purely in terms of its ability to remove the perception that the film is a soft love triangle with a routine story arc. Co-starring Srinidhi Shetty and Raashi Khanna (who play the hero's love interests), the film has music by Thaman. It heads to theatres on October 17.
