Story: Young couples face the moral police trap when they are physically and mentally harassed by unknown men.
With their love to test, how did they handle it? Review: IshQ is Telugu remake from Malayalam 2019 film with the same name that sees viewers divided when released.
Although it can be praised that the adaptation of SS Raju, just as the original, arousing how the moral police affects young and unmarried couples who only want to date and get to know each other, the way filmmakers become ‘eyes for the eyes’ scenario must be problematic.
When women always block the burden of society inherent in honor and respect their bodies, the way the film runs to handle the subject is troublesome.
Siddhu (Teja Sajja) is your ordinary person who likes to spend time with his girlfriend, Anu (Priya Prakash Varrier) and wants to settle him.
He was very posesive and wanted to make sure his birthday remained unforgettable.
Two duets, one long trip on the beach road after they look for a private angle to have time alone and find a parking lot.
The problem came knocked, literally, in the form of Madhav (Ravindra Vijay) who claimed that he was a police officer.
He threatened them for personal details, immediately joined another man and everything was just a spiral from there.
What started as a romantic link soon turned into the worst dream of each partner.
The way Siddhu characters are written, you hope at the end of all the trials that most don’t want him to know if his girlfriend is mentally, see how he is so ‘possessive’.
That doesn’t happen.
Toxic masculinity is not new for Indian cinemas and filmmakers find ways to put it in a story that initially did a good job of exploring something many couples on this country’s face.
IshQ really studies well for not only how uncomfortable, how scary it is when each random uncle believes that his business is to know everything about you and feel free to speak in many ways.
What is scary is how a good man should feel comfortable using the same double expert in small children who might end up needing years of therapy.
IshQ is a strange mix of feminism and misogyny that is not really a gel well together.
On the one hand you have Anu, who prefers to live in a clearly dangerous situation than seek help because he doesn’t want to embarrass his family.
But he also knew what he wanted from a partner and gladly gave him a finger, literally, when he was not in harmony with his thought process.
Siddhu should be ‘hero’ from the story of the music method played in the background when he was on the screen.
He will fight with a random man because he sees his girlfriend and the idea of revenge is so crooked, no sane who can come with it.
The transition is rather extreme and booming.
Teja Sajja and Priya Prakash gave their role but it was Ravindra Vijay who lived with you for a long time after the film was finished.
The character is very crooked; He played it evil, Gleeful Abandon.
At the end of all that, the songs by Mahati Swara Sagar added nothing to the film and chemistry between the lead partner so less, it was boring you until the film entered the thickness.
IshQ has the potential to be something more, if only the subject is handled better than ultimately to anything other than a case study on a large, fat, male ego.
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Review of ISHQ: Not A Love Story Review: 2.5 / 5
