Janaka Aithe Ganaka (2024) : Juvenile Aithe Ganaka

‘Janaka Aithe Ganaka’ is arriving at the cinemas this Saturday (October 12th). Here we bring you one of the earliest reviews in the town.

Telugu Funda’s reveal of the Plot:

Prasad (Suhas) is an atypical middle-class person who is not excited about seeing his DNA walk in front of his eyes. He can do without kids. He has convinced his wife and father and everyone around him of the pointlessness of having kids if one can’t afford to provide them with the best education and healthcare in the town. By a quirk of fate, Pasad’s wife gets pregnant. The culprit is a contraceptive gone rogue. The leaky condom maker must now face a legal challenge from Prasad.

Telugu Funda’s take on the Performances:

1. Suhas: Nothing out of the ordinary.
2. The family members: Goparaju Ramana plays a one-note father, yet again. Sangeethana Vipin, as Prasad’s wife, barely gets to speak.
3. The comedians: When Vennela Kishore is around, others don’t stand a chance. Prabhas Sreenu as a womanizing lawyer, and Rajendra Prasad as a silly judge are average.

Telugu Funda’s take on the Hits:

Have you heard of DINK? It is an acronym for “dual income, no kids”, a slang term used to describe a couple who are both employed and don’t have children. In ‘Janaka Aithe Ganaka’, the wife is not employed but the DINK sentiment is very much in the air. Writer-director Sandeep Bandla weaves his story based on the growing anxieties of a lot of millennial and post-millennial Indians.

Suhas’ character comes with some understanding of his station of life. He is neither the ideal type nor is he the reckless dude who doesn’t deserve to be respected. Even when he makes silly arguments in the courtroom, you can bear with him because of the characterization and the actor playing him.

Telugu Funda’s take on the Misses:

Everything after a point is a farce in this film. The courtroom proceedings border on the juvenile. A condom company has, as its biggest legal brain, a horny lawyer (Prabhas Sreenu) who is a male version of Chitti from ‘Jathi Ratnalu’ in terms of zero legal knowledge. The judge (played by Rajendra Prasad) behaves as though he is incapable of thinking when someone speaks two full sentences before him. Of course, it is another matter that you can accuse practically every character in the film of incorrigible dumbness.

When Prasad says that getting a child educated in today’s times takes lakhs and lakhs of rupees (he estimates the total cost to be Rs 1 Cr over more than a decade), nobody in the film makes a real effort (real effort, not a half-hearted effort in a comedy scene) to educate him about why things are not that gloomy for the middle-class. If you thought Prasad and the people around him are headless, the entry of lawyer characters (including a supposed legal luminary played by Murali Sharma) makes it even worse: they are headless chickens.

Telugu cinema’s obsession with dumbing down everything in the name of comedy is just pathological at this point. With ‘Janaka Aithe Ganaka’, the tragedy is worse because it has come from the producers of a fine dramedy like ‘Balagam’.

Telugu Funda’s Verdict:

‘Janaka Aithe Ganaka’ is a silly courtroom film that offers a few laughs and plenty of frustration. If you think mere mention of the word ‘condom’ stimulates horniness in men, this juvenile film is for you.

Rating: 2/5

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