Doesn’t live up to its title -

A grandmother’s (carried out by Tulasi) reference to Ramayana helps one in all many lead characters draw a parallel to a wierd flip of events in her life. Later throughout the story, the grandmother urges her granddaughter Vennela (debutante Shivani Rajasekhar) to not try to alter future. The mythological reference to underline the divine intervention doesn’t come as a shock, given that story is by Prasanth Varma (director of Awe and Zombie Reddy), who has used it as a plot system in his earlier work too.

Adbhutham, directed by Mallik Ram, was purported to introduce erstwhile child actor Teja Sajja as a hero. The much-delayed film now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar has well-known members in its crew — writer Lakshmi Bhupala, editor Garry B H, music director Radhan and cinematographer Vidyasagar Chinta — who’ve since gone on to determine themselves with totally different duties. Teja, within the meantime, acted in Oh! Youngster, Zombie Reddy and Ishq.

Adbhutham begins on a science fiction premise after which makes an try to be a romance, comedy and family drama rolled into one. The outcome’s faraway from satisfactory. Surya (Teja Sajja) is a failed musician who grapples with personal loss and finds no happiness in his job as a newsreader; he decides to complete his life. In a bid to depart a phrase, he sends an sms to his private amount, and is shocked when he'll get a response. On the totally different end is Vennela, who may be about to complete her life, unable to clear her exams to pursue larger analysis and by no means wanting to get married on the insistence of her father.

After an alternate of offended, aggravated messages the characters realise that they share the an identical mobile amount and that they every keep in Hyderabad though they’re 5 years apart — he in 2019 and she or he in 2014. The change in sky coloration is attributed to picture voltaic flare, and it’s acknowledged that magnetic self-discipline anomalies have led to 2 people speaking over the an identical amount, albeit, from completely totally different time intervals.

The excellence begins with the character names — Surya and Vennela — to later exhibiting them going by way of reverse local weather conditions in Hyderabad and the bond they share with their respective fathers — as if to say that the twain shall under no circumstances meet. Nonetheless… you under no circumstances know. This is usually a mainstream Telugu film the place science fiction is leveraged for some good laughs. Actor Satya’s presence as a result of the hero’s pal ensures this. In a single sequence, the duo helps Vennela by sourcing a five-year-old question paper. And there’s moreover a dialogue about Satya making an attempt to call his private amount to see if he, too, will uncover a girl from the earlier.

The film can take heed to its predecessors in science fiction and references Singeetam Srinivasda Rao’s Aditya 369 and Vikram Kumar’s 24. The potential of a persona from the earlier connecting with anyone from the present has moreover been explored in numerous motion pictures — the 2021 Telugu film Play Once more and the 2006 English film The Lake Residence, which was in flip tailor-made from the 2000 South Korean film Il Mare.

After establishing the premise, Adbhutham finds itself on shaky terrain. Whereas Surya’s story of setbacks in his musical journey and his relationship alongside together with his father (Sivaji Raja) is narrated decently adequate to draw empathy, Vennela’s travails with a suitor don’t evoke the laughs they’re purported to.

A story akin to this may occasionally have benefitted with a tighter screenplay and better performances. As newcomers, Teja and Shivani have good show presence and provide you with low-cost performances, nevertheless there are events it doesn’t actually really feel sufficient. The music is usually a letdown; we now have heard considerably higher tunes from Radhan.

As a result of the story progresses, the makes an try to race in opposition to time all through the two intervals to change the course of important events get messier. The twists and turns protect coming but it surely certainly appears to be a examine of endurance. Satya remarks jovially at one degree that that's in all probability essentially the most troublesome, unrealistic and hypothetical love story of the century. That describes the event of this story too.