‘Completely satisfied Birthday to Me’ film evaluation: Performances anchor this reasonably humorous, trippy drama

Chaithra J Achar in ‘Completely satisfied Birthday to Me’
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In the event you had watched the trailer of Completely satisfied Birthday to Me, you may start the Kannada film understanding the movie’s central battle, ready for the primary twist to unfold. Nevertheless, director Rakesh Kadri cleverly doesn’t delay the inevitable; the movie immediately provides you a cause to be interested in it.

Completely satisfied Birthday to Me is a trippy movie a couple of birthday celebration gone fallacious. Puneeth (Sidhaartha Maadhyamika) invitations his “buddy” Adithi (Chaithra J Achar) house to rejoice his birthday. The social gathering by no means takes off as mysterious circumstances result in Adithi’s loss of life. Can Puneeth discover a means out of this precarious scenario?

There aren’t many Kannada movies that discover the hilarious however unsure world of ‘stoners’, and that makes Completely satisfied Birthday to Me a singular try. Kadri provides against the law angle to his story by letting the lifeless physique drive the movie‘s narrative — an idea that was partly impressed by Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, as revealed by the director in his pre-release interviews.

Completely satisfied Birthday to Me is a movie that consciously doesn’t take itself significantly. Therefore, the movie’s conclusion isn’t as essential as what unfolds between the start and the climax. The director considerably surpasses this problem to supply a reasonably participating and humorous movie anchored by dialogues and performances.

The solid delivers a practical efficiency, in sync with the movie’s easy-going tone. Siddu Moolimani as Thirumalesh A.Ok.A Trippy, Puneeth’s buddy and flatmate, retains you smiling along with his plausible portrayal of a psychedelic man. He rigorously avoids jarring shifts in feelings and pulls off a humorous act.

Gopalakrishna Deshpande, who performs the house’s proprietor, produces huge laughs along with his hilarious efficiency as a hallucinating man — who after by chance popping an unlawful avenue drug turns into a person preventing the Britishers’ invasion of Bengaluru by marshalling his military to the Silk Board junction (If , ). His unhinged act sells this outrageous but uproarious concept.

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Some dialogues are chucklesome, just like the one when Trippy, fearing he shall be dragged to jail together with Puneeth for Adithi’s loss of life, wonders if prisons have a Western commode. One other scene has Trippy speaking to strangers about submitting a petition for establishing weed clinics in India. One says, “We will go to Magadi to smoke up as a substitute of travelling to Manali.”

The identical scene additionally has the three males joking about the potential of rising weed on the moon. Nevertheless, they go on and on about it, to an extent the place we don’t discover it humorous anymore and need the movie to maneuver previous the joke. The movie has related lengthy and boring sequences, crammed with dialogues that fail to land effectively. Not all conditions involving guests to Puneeth’s house are attention-grabbing, like a comedy involving a safety guard.

The movie has one-note characters, with the director giving minimal details about their backgrounds. The movie does present a cause behind Puneeth’s anger points however doesn’t delve deep into it so as to add an additional layer to his story.

Completely satisfied Birthday to Me is inconsistently paced, and you want to keep affected person for the very best moments to pop up between the tasteless parts. Nevertheless, regardless of the failings, that is one other indie Kannada film trying to interrupt the mould, and full marks to Kadri and his staff for daring to experiment; the movie is ideal for a lazy Sunday with mates.

Completely satisfied Birthday to Me is at the moment streaming on Airtel Xstream, Hungama Play, Vodafone TV, JustWatch, Watcho and Tata Binge.