Neevevaro

One of Kona Venkat's noted strengths is being able to inject comic sequences into mundane plots, and he tries them in this thriller, too. The results are however mixed this time - the reason being that the earlier films where the comedy worked had plots that gave him enough material to come up with interesting characters with behavioural quirks, while Neevevaro is a one-note thriller that gives him no such leverage.

For starters, the movie appears shallow all through the courtship between Kalyan (Aadhi Pinisetty), a blind masterchef, and Vennela (Taapsee Pannu), who is, well, a ....