shefali-59244 Review of Cinema Bandi

Cinema Bandi (2021)

Cinema Bandi, On Netflix, Is A Simple And Unassuming Ode To Amateur Filmmaking

[14 May 2021]

When Veerababu (Vikas Vasistha) finds a high-end camera mistakenly left behind in his auto, he knows that it's too expensive to belong to anyone in Gollapalli, a nondescript village in Karnataka. With money problems like everyone else, his first instinct is to sell it or rent it out. It's not until Ganapathi (Sandeep Varanasi) tells him that films with Mahesh Babu and Pawan Kalyan are made using such cameras that Veerababu realises he could be making such films too. If this sounds farcical on paper, that's how it looks on screen at first. But Cinema Bandi is rooted and their desperation to make a film is real, however comical it might appear to us. Filmmaking is not just an escape for Veerababu; it's also the only escape from his circumstances.