Mana Kurralle

As if the title weren't ominous enough to strike fear into the hearts of the most stalwart of Telugu filmgoers, Mana Kurralle is appended by a tagline - "The Next Generation" - that further forebodes impending inanity. As must be obvious by now, every time Tollywood churns out a film about that mysteriously buffleheaded group known as "the youth", it invariably tends to be a paean to backwards time-travel - i. e. about how much better young people could do if only they went back to the ways of the hunter-gatherers.

Mana Kurralle, unfortunately, is not the exception. Latchu (Arv....