Mast Mein Rehne Ka is a slice of life, dark movie disguising as a comedy. It touches upon many themes: poverty, struggles in a large city, loneliness in old age. Specially hard-hitting is the take on difficulty of making friends as you grow older. In the U-curve of story telling the movie doesn’t take time to get into the valley and keeps going down, only to have some easy tropes pull you out of the trough - like the mean son returning to take her mother abroad, almost reversing the villain.

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Hi Papa (“Hi Nanna” originally in Telugu) is a movie about parenting, a love story which is slightly different than run of the mill masala ones. However, at a broader level, it is no different than typical Telugu rom-dramas (similar to Jersey, also ft. Nani) where you will see the male hero victimized and glorified, and the female lead being in the morally wrong territory, only to realize her mistake later and continue the sob-fest later on.

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