Sangeetha Devi Dundoo

The Hindu

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo is a journalist and film critic with The Hindu, Hyderabad, with a focus on Telugu cinema. She has been reviewing films for nearly 13 years in her 25-year journalism career. She was part of the founding team of The Times of India, Hyderabad, and worked in the features section for nearly six years before moving to The Hindu. Growing up in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, she now considers Hyderabad her home. She writes on cinema, fine arts, textiles and handlooms, fashion, environmental issues, city trends and occasionally, books.

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Swag

Comedy, Drama (Telugu)

Hasith Goli and a brilliant Sree Vishnu strike again with a deceptive, layered satire

Sat, October 5 2024

Director Hasith Goli’s Telugu film ‘Swag’ is a lot more than a satire on the battle of the sexes and he is helped immensely by the performances of Sree Vishnu, Ritu Varma and Meera Jasmine

When a man who wears his masculinity on his sleeve laments at how his son is growing up, displaying feminine traits, his wife tries to make him understand the importance of accepting an individual’s natural expression of gender. This segment and the portion that follows gives writer-director Hasith Goli’s Telugu film Swag the much-needed emotional anchor. Until then, the narrative is like a satire, with elements of farce and ‘absurd theatre’ as the several characters played by Sree Vishnu and the dual characters of Ritu Varma slug it out to assert the power of male versus female.

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