The locations look rather stale the setting looks rural but the characters enjoy an anonimity that is the stuff of metros - the three friends managing to have a secret place as an adda even as everyone in the street can tell their rogue stories. The situations are ordinary, but her characterization (if not the actress herself) adds pep to otherwise lame proceedings. Making-wise, it is far from satisfactory.įor the entire first half, it is only the heroine who is the bright spot, entertaining the audience with her naughtiness. Narration-wise, the film is found wanting. Noel, Naveen Neni and Sudarshan are there to be a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy in his life. This sub-plot keeps us guessing as to what its relevance is, almost till the climax, and even beyond that if one doesn't get the purpose the way it is intended to be. Siddhu's three friends form the film's major sub-plot. Siddhu has been a puzzled one, but he is too preoccupied with his personal life to care much about Kumari, for whom he is having feelings, slowly but surely. Siddhu's tryst with Kumari is narrated in installments and when all the installments are over, we come to know that Kumari fell in love with him at first sight. New to the city, Kumari lives with her semi-paralysed grandfather who can't talk properly.
There is even a song where the hero is seen wondering if the girl has loose morals, much as in 'Jagadam'. Kumari (Heebah Patel) has this puzzling behaviour, she is an extension of the 'Jagadam' girl, in fact a better version of her. Siddhu is the son of a separated mother, doesn't like his father, who has ditched them for another woman, and he finds escapism in his three friends, played by Noel Sean, Naveen Neni, and Sudarshan. (There are many places where it is clear that the idea took birth in the late 1990s or early 2000s). He begins narrating his story, set in a low-end colony, much as in Jagadam. Despite being beaten to the pulp, he won't tell the truth about his friends' whereabouts. The film begins with Siddhu (Raj Tarun) being taken to custody by an angry cop. As with Jagadam, the sub-plot is either unsettling or ennui-inducing at best. 'Kumari 21F' is a stretch of a single line, but the climax throws up a surprise (or shock, if you would have it) that is more difficult to understand than to accept. Having been written by Sukumar, the youth were expected to brace it up.
This film has that adult comedy style title that it is not surprising that this Sukumar-written film has garnered so much of craze.