Kumari 21F | Theatres List

From its manic pixie heroine to its peppy music to its aspiring-to-be-snappy dialogue, Kumari 21F tries to be a film about outdated perceptions of what Telugu boys expect their womenfolk to be and how harmful these perceptions ultimately are. It is, on the surface, the story of Siddu (Raj Kumar) and his love for a maddeningly confusing girl called Kumari (Heebah Patel). As it turns out, however, the story is about Kumari insofar as it concerns a tiny bit of her flesh, namely her hymen, or lack thereof.

The movie starts with Siddu narrating his fate at the hands of a woman, and t....