Anish Krishna’s Krishna Vrinda Vihari is a meddling rom-com that tries to set itself apart from the rest but doesn’t really manage to do so by staying....basic. The film’s tonality wavers between comedy, drama and sentiment, with the narrative so jagged, you wonder why a dialogue is making you laugh or a fight is breaking out in the middle of a serious scene. But that’s not the only issue the film suffers from because the familiarities with Ante Sundaraniki are also hard to miss.
Krishna (Naga Shaurya) has come to Hyderabad with big dreams in his eyes. Not of pursuing his dream job and making big money, but of finding a girl he can call his. He finds that girl in his boss Vrinda (Shirley Setia), who’s the complete opposite of him and his family. You see, Krishna hails from a small village in West Godavari and has the kind of family that still follows madi acharam and talks in an odd accent that filmmakers think is how Brahmin people talk. Instead of coming across as relatable, his family manages to come across as plain annoying. The big matriarch of his family is Amritavalli (Radhika), who’s called the Sivagami of her village in one scene, because anything she says goes. As for Vrinda’s Punjabi family, we don’t spend too much time on them apart from when Amritavalli decides to judge them for drinking on a happy occasion. But we digress.