Solo Brathuke So Better: A RomCom entertainer with cliche fight scenes
By: Reality Check Reviews
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3/5

Supreme star has come up with his not so supreme movie Solo Brathuke So Better. The film opens with so called shlokas which tell you why marriage and love are bad for you and your life. They zoom through fast but if you are able to catch one, you will find yourself breaking into a laugh. Virat (Sai Tej) is the torch bearer of a philosophy “Solo Brathuke So Better” which advocates a life without romance and marriage inspired by his mama’s (Rao Ramesh) frustrated marriage life. He even founds a union in his college advocating this philosophy. He even publishes book with 108 shlokas preaching this philosophy. I would love to get a hand on this.

After graduating college, Virat and his “dandupalyam batch” (Virat and his friends) leave for Hyderabad and begins their life as forever bachelors. Their vision and philosophy fades as reality sets in. Entire dandupalyam batch falls prey to love and marriage one by one leaving Sai Tej alone to walk the talk on his philosophy. At last reality hits Virat in the form white hairs, little kid calling him Uncle and his older age boss (Jhansi) showing interest in him. The death of his mama’s wife pushes him off the edge as he sees the difficulties, despair of loneliness in his mama’s face. Realising that his philosophy is ideal for memes and Instagram posts but not in real life, Virat reaches out to his “Dandupalyam” batch. Their trials of getting an aged bachelor married generates hilarious comedy.

Govind (“Vennela Kishore”) forces Virat to come to his marriage where the bride (Amruta — Nabha Natesh) says she is in love with Virat and denies to get married to Govind. An elated Virat gets disappointed as he gets to know Amruta is a follower of his philosophy and did this to escape from her marriage.

Amruta and Virat reunite in Virat’s home town (Vizag) where Amruta works as Junior Lecturer in GITAM University. At this point reality is left behind. Universities do not have JLs (Intermediate colleges have JLs). Universities have Associate Professors. You find youself with raised eyebrows when a junior lecturer walks around with a T-shirt and a denim jacket on the campus. Amruta’s flashback takes you through her school, Intermediate and College life. Director did not even try to make Nabha Natesh a little bit younger. Instead you find a grown woman in school uniform wearing pigtails. Nabha looks the same from her school life to college life in this flashback. This follows a couple of completely unrelated cliche fight scenes to elevate the hero just for the sake of it. This is where Virat beats up more than 10 strongly built goons without even breaking a sweat. The film ends with a happy ending as Amrutha realises she is infact in love with Virat.

Interactions among Vennela Kishore, Sai Tej and his Dandupalyam batch creates enough comedy to keep you entertained throughout the film. Artists like Hyper Aadi, Jhansi and even the likes of Rajendra Prasad fall into the under utilised category as they have negligible to no screen time. But then again heroine herself makes an entry at the interval.

Overall Solo Brathuke So Better is a good film to watch in theatres with your family.