Nanda Kishore Emani’s 35 Chinna Katha Kadu is a rift of a small happy family with (ill)logics of society that reminds you of Amir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par’s sensibilities but stays original and fresh and entertaining.
The family of Chinnu and Prasad is an ideal small happily living family in Tirupathi. They don’t have any big problems in life, but only big aspirations– to go from zero to 35, and that’s Chinna Katha Kaadu (not a small story).
Arun, the elder child of the family, is introduced to us as not that kid who couldn’t understand Maths. He can’t understand not because he has dyslexia, like we experienced with Ishaan Awasthi in Taare Zameen Par. He can’t understand because there is no one who can make him understand. You understand what Nanda Kishore is hitting at– the broken education system that makes brilliant children into rote robots.
Priyadarshi as Chanakya Varma playing a strict Mathematics teacher that stereotypically resonates with our nostalgic memory is relatable. What is also relatble are the quirky rational doubts that Arun asks. How does the valueless zero has the value once it its palced to the sider of another digit? There are not coming from a psuedo-philosophical banters. They are genuine doubts risen from a curious child who prefers chess over a ‘chiken dinner’ and stay loyal to single friend than be with too many friends, even if it lands him up as a loner. So be it. He is an adamant champ.
The Chess-playing adamant Arun doesn’t heed to Mathematical logic without a satisfying reasoning. The strict playing Chanakya Varma doesn’t want children to question the fundamentals of Maths. How do they resolve their conflicts of reasoning is the crux of story that stands outs as a critiquing mirror of the poor society that we are in and it also stands out as an example of what the children are ought to be– i.e questioning everything.
The unadult-ed childish logic is the true logic that is not polluted by the ‘intellect’ of elder men and women. 35 – Chinna Katha Kaadu celebrates this logic through the Chinnu alias Bala Saraswathi (Nivetha Thomas). She is really smart mother. The scenes where she convinces her adamant son are amusing and brings out a chuckle onto our faces.
35 – Chinna Katha Kaadu is meant to be age well for the ethos it promotes. It is a deserving watch to all budding children and all adults.
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