170 minutes of unemployment chaos starring a YouTuber. What could go wrong?
The story of Surya, a middle-class youngster struggling to find a decent job but to his misfortune, he never achieves any success at the task
Acting
Shanmukh's authentic YouTuber-to-actor energy
Writing
Middle-class Telugu family dynamics hit different
Production
Debut director swings big on runtime
Director
Subbu.k
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shanmukh Jaswanth was already a massive Telugu YouTuber before this; the casting essentially played into his real-life 'struggling artist' persona.
The film captures post-2016 Telugu middle-class anxiety—engineering degrees, worthless; government exams, impossible; startups, scams. Surya's spiral is uncomfortably specific to that moment.
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