Nanna Nenu Naa Boy Friends

Deliberately or not, Bhaskar Bandi's romcom Nanna Nenu Naa Boyfriends reverses gender stereotypes to reflect the hypocrisy within our society - you cannot help wondering how differently it would have been perceived had a man done what Padmavati (Hebah Patel) does in this film. But through a few of its characters, NNNB tells you how society, or Tollywood (or the film industry itself) to be more honest, has still not evolved past typecasting genders and justifying misogynous slurs and notions.

Indeed, poor execution means that the noble intent and even the long soliloquy by the p....