Another person who stands out is Venu Arvind who plays Harish Kalyan’s father. He is very good, as are the two actors who play Harish Kalyan’s friends – Anbuthasan and Abhishek Kumar. In fact, Priya Bhavani Shankar has better chemistry with Ashwin Kumar, who plays her ex-boyfriend in a small flashback. That inner life that I spoke about earlier is not there in either Harish Kalyan or Priya Bhavani Shankar. The leads take a while to settle into their roles and at first, they are very pleasant but bland. there is a staginess to the dialogues and also to the performances. Now, that is not exactly there in Oh Manapenne! which gets off to quite a shaky start. The film had a genuine newness to it in the way it was staged, realized and everything that a director needed to do. Their individual performances as well as in their mutual scenes, their chemistry was off the charts, as was Tharun Bhascker’s staging and direction. Ritu Varma and Vijay Deverakonda did that brilliantly. What really makes these characters more than what they are is the inner life that an actor brings. What is actually special about this is that they brought inner life to their characters.Anybody can play focus, which is an external character and anybody can play lazy You can just sit there and have a smoke or something.

She really looked like the gold winning MBA type and he, like a lazy loser, but a lovable lazy loser type. The best thing about Pelli Choopulu was the casting because of the way it brought together Vijay Deverakonda and Ritu Varma.

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