Family Circus

A year ago, a Hollywood black comedy called American Beauty swept away the Oscars, with family dysfunction being its theme. Till then, people never realized that such an offbeat tale, a script that makes us laugh by inflicting torture on its protagonists, would go down so well with the classes and the masses alike.

Cut to our very own Tollywood, a region where freshness spells taboo, where clichés still rule the roost and where comedy always carries an adjective called 'risqué' attached to it. In such a scenario comes perhaps the first black comedy of its kind....