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Some genres are beyond the pale of Telugu cinema. Tollywood might be great when it comes to mass action entertainers but genre films are not within its grasp. Telugu filmmakers can’t make family dramas (as against family entertainers), workplace dramas (what are they even?), black comedies (are they about colour-shaping dark-complexioned comedians?), so on and so forth.
Courtroom drama is another genre that Telugu cinema is poor at. In the latest film, Court: State Vs. A Nobody, the courtroom arguments carry no bite. They are clever only if you think an experienced lawyer doesn’t know how to field fake witnesses.
In silly action entertainers, the villain is usually reduced to a clueless joker. In mediocre courtroom dramas, one of the two sides (defence vs. prosecution) is reduced to a similar state. In Court, Priyadarshi‘s character defends a young male wrongly accused under POCSO Act. The lawyer keeps stumbling upon clues just like that – that too, in no time.
The way Natural Star Nani promoted Court, it felt as if the film would be groundbreaking. Pink (Hindi), which was remade as Vakeel Saab, was groundbreaking because it didn’t rely on the immorality of the evil side as much as on their societal prejudices. Amitabh Bachchan’s arguments were thought-provoking because they questioned the assumptions of the audience. But the latest Telugu film, Court, is about the opposition making silly mistakes and making its evilness quite obvious. While these things happen in real life all the time, there is nothing pathbreaking in attempting such a story.
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