#Sontham movie sunil comedy scenes skin#
At first, Ramaraju says he objects to his sister’s relationship with Jayakrishna because of his skin colour. He is a vicious bully who abuses his power as a police officer. Yet, Ramaraju is not just confident, but even vain about his looks.
But Deepthi’s brother Ramaraju (Sunil) is also dark-skinned, and so is their father, we are told. One of the reasons Jayakrishna seems meek (at first), and is often bullied, is his dark skin. The laughter isn’t invoked by disrespecting any of the characters, or denying them dignity. But in this film, we get to see a sincere, adorable friendship between his character and Suhas’s Jayakrishna. Harsha Chemudu, who plays the hero’s best friend Bala Yesu, has also often been confined to roles in which belittling his appearance has been passed off as comedy. The actor has incidentally played the lead role in several films in the past decade, but hasn’t seen much success since Rajamouli’s Maryada Ramanna back in 2010.Ĭolour Photo repurposes a couple of Sunil’s famous lines to capitalise on his ‘star comedian’ status, a practice usually reserved for star heroes. The menacing antagonist is played by Sunil, who is a staple in iconic comedy scenes from Telugu cinema of the 2000s. Until now, Suhas, the ‘hero’ of Colour Photo, had been confined to playing the hero’s friend/comedian. The film talks about multiple axes of inequality and prejudice, through various relationships, and also through the film’s casting, which goes against Tollywood norms. Obviously, they fall in love, and obviously, their love is forbidden.
She is the topper of the college, has light skin and is conventionally beautiful. Deepthi is from a wealthy, dominant caste (Varma) family. He delivers milk in the mornings before attending engineering college. Jayakrishna is a dark-skinned boy from a poor, oppressed caste family. “I am not the hero, I am a plot device,” Jayakrishna tells his friend Bala Yesu (Harsha Chemudu) as they get ready for a stage play in college.
Yet, many supporting characters are written to be meaningful and consequential. The film, set in the seaside town of Machilipatnam in the late ‘90s, is primarily about the romantic relationship between Jayakrishna (Suhas) and Deepthi (Chandini Chowdary). These allusions to the family’s stardom are meant to excite fans, and fandom and loyalty are also often inherited along family lines and/or caste lines.īut in Colour Photo, now streaming on OTT platform Aha, these period references seem to have been carefully curated, partly to induce nostalgia, partly to appease fans (a Mahesh Babu reference already seems to have fans excited), but also in part to convey the filmmakers' fondness for the films they grew up watching. Actors from film families often have references from their father’s or uncle’s or grandfather’s (and soon possibly even their great grandfathers') films written into songs and dialogues of their own films. While all of this might have been an attempt at frugally establishing the time period, such references to older films - a kind of ‘intertextuality’ - is quite common in Telugu films.
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