Ishq (Telugu)

Ishq is a romantic comedy featuring some impressive work by cinematographer P C Sriram, and by character actor Ajay. It is the story of Priya and Rahul, who fall in love after a chance meeting at an airport. However, they find out that their pasts are linked. Will their love story have a happy ending?

Ishq is a rom-com quite different from what one would dub run-of-the-mill, with director Vikram Kumar choosing to let actions and expressions speak louder than words. It is a likeable movie despite Nithya Menen's increasingly un-Telugu Telugu and Nitin's un-heroic heroics, and strangely enough, part of the film's charm lies in how close to real life these actors look and feel.

Helped enormously by P C Sriram's brilliant cinematography - with wide angles, sepia tones in parts, and a generally slick look and feel - and a background score that is both grandiose and breezy, the movi....