Miss India

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Miss India is a 2020 Indian Telugu-language business drama written and directed by Narendra Nath and produced by Mahesh S. Koneru under East Coast Productions. It stars Keerthy Suresh and Jagapathi Babu, with Rajendra Prasad, Naresh, Nadhiya and Naveen Chandra in supporting roles. Its theatrical release was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it came out on Netflix on 4 November 2020 to negative reviews.

Story

Manasa Samyuktha is an ambitious young woman from a middle-class family. When her brother gets a job in the US, she moves there too. She dreams of starting her own tea business, a promise she made to her late grandfather, but her family thinks it is too risky. She leaves home after turning down a marriage proposal, finds an investor for her idea and opens a tea café called “Miss India”. As her cafés spread, she draws the hostility of KSK, who owns a chain of coffee shops in the US.

Cast

• Keerthy Suresh as Manasa Samyuktha
• Jagapathi Babu as Kailash Sivakumar (KSK)
• Rajendra Prasad as Dr. Vishwanath, Manasa’s grandfather
• Naresh as Sivarama Krishna, her father
• Nadhiya as Kamala, her mother
• Naveen Chandra as Vijay Anand, her former love interest
• Kamal Kamaraju as Arjun Chaitanya, her elder brother
• Sumanth Shailendra as Vikram, her business partner

Crew

Dani Sanchez-Lopez and Sujith Vaassudev shot the film, and S. Thaman composed the music.

Music

Thaman’s soundtrack was released by Aditya Music. The first single, “Kotthaga Kotthaga”, sung by Shreya Ghoshal and Thaman, came out on 7 February 2020. “Lacha Gummadi” and the “Theme of Miss India” followed in late October, and the full album was released on 2 November 2020.

Release and reception

The film was due in cinemas on 17 April 2020 but was postponed because of the pandemic. It premiered on Netflix on 4 November 2020 in Telugu, with Tamil and Malayalam dubbed versions. Reviews were mixed to negative. Critics pointed to contrived plotting, weak dialogue and characters, and a shallow treatment of sexism. The News Minute joked that it felt like a two-hour advertisement for chai, and Cinema Express gave it 1.5 out of 5.

Sources: Wikipedia and Wikidata.