Abhilasha Cherukuri

in The New Indian Express

Allari Naresh and Faria Abdullah shine intermittently, and the joke is on us for believing the film could be anything more than that.

in Cinema Express

Abhilasha Cherukuri of Cinema Express gave 2/5 stars and wrote "the film was a two-and-half hour-long advertisement for the Vijayawada-Hyderabad expressway.

in The New Indian Express

Miss Perfect is short and sweet, like a chick-lit novel

in The New Indian Express

Lavanya Tripathi takes the centre-stage in Puli Meka, something rare for mainstream Telugu cinema. She gets not one but two introductory action sequences that are delightful to watch. As a viewer, you keep guessing what she is up to next, which is quite impressive. Aadi Saikumar’s performance was sadly the series’s weakest link, his acting is dull and unconvincing.

in Cinema Express

Do these wives meet another time? Do they lean on each other for support the way the men of these series do? The series is content with letting these women exist for the sole purpose of moving the story of their husbands forward. With the entire story set up with some deft and confidence, it is certainly disappointing to not receive a satisfying pay-off or closure. The series short-sells gags to its audience when it should have actually focused on its strong suit of interpersonal dynamics. Abhinav Gomatam and Priyadarshi handle the comic portions ably but the story itself loses steam halfway, with no amount of acting being able to bring it back to momentum. For a story sold as a series meant for binge-watching, it ambles by with comedy more on par with a sitcom, the kind that releases a single episode weekly.