Vishwak Sen, who calls himself as ‘Mass ka Das’, turned into Crass ka Das with Laila; hitting the lowest bar of regressive jokes at each and every scene.
Laila is going to be the lowest film in the filmography of Vishwak. You shouldn’t be surprised even if it falls under the worst of Telugu cinema ever. Vishwak plays the role of Sonu Model in exuberant costumes in lavish and rich production sets that look plasticy everywhere (production designed by Brahma Kadali). He runs a beauty parlour in the old city of Hyderabad and thus becomes the literal model of that locality. His face on oil cans increases the sales to the extreme levels of emptying the store! The same oil cans lead him to the case of food poisoning. The makers would have felt intelligent to plug-in the contemporary mass food poisoning cases in Hyderabad. But, why! All the characters in the films are just butt of jokes. There is not a single aspect in the whole 2 hour length movie that feels like forever, not joking. I was waiting to rush out of the theatre. And, I did.
I shouldn’t say the jokes are even not funny. They are unbearable. The tracks of women cat-fighting on streets, men devouring to cheat on their wives, humiliating dark-skinned woman, reducing women to nothing but boobs and ass, is just disgusting. The music composed by Leon James is worse. The worst is the forceful injection of “Mass ka Das” in two of the songs. WHY!? There is nothing to talk about the film without making it feel like an angry rant-bot on Twitter.
Director Ram Narayan and writer Vasudeva Murthy should be called out for making such a regressive film that doesn’t even pretend, but outrightly made the crassiest, low bar “humor.” Vishwak Sen should have thought before signing this film and promoting it as his “experimental film”. What are they experimenting with? Audience’s patience and supposed lack of intelligence?
TF Rating: 0.5/5
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