After bringing some heartwarming tales from Mumbai, Amazon Prime Video has expanded its Modern Love franchise with Modern Love Hyderabad. A Telugu-language anthology series, this latest release has 6 segments or episodes, written by Nagesh Kukunoor, Shashi Sudigala and Bahaish Kapoor and, directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, Venkatesh Maha, Uday Gurrala and Devika Bahudhanam.
Modern Love Hyderabad stars Nithya Menen, Revathi, Aadhi Pinisetty, Ritu Varma, Suhasini Maniratnam, Naresh Agastya, Abijeet Duddala, Malvika Nair, Naresh, Ulka Gupta and Anirudh Pavithran amongst others. The six episodes of the show have a runtime of 30 to 40 minutes.
– Amazon Prime Video’s Modern Love Hyderabad Review Does Not Contain Spoilers –
Modern Love Hyderabad: Stories of the Heart from the Lion City
Modern Love has been an impressive franchise to follow. The franchise started with the American television series Modern Love, based on the weekly column of the same name published by The New York Times. Since then, it has been an ever-evolving journey with the horizons making their way to India this year. Just like Modern Love Mumbai, Modern Love Hyderabad wears the city on its sleeve, telling us everyday stories which are magical, inspiring and lovely in their own way.
The charisma of Modern Love Hyderabad starts with the first episode titled My Unlikely Pandemic Dreams Partner. Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, the episode stars Revathi and Nithya as a mother-daughter duo and holds food at the heart of the tale. The story is focused on Revathi’s ingenious cooking talent and how over the years it becomes her device of communication. From anger and resentment to the healing of food, My Unlikely Pandemic Dreams Partner hits close to home.
The following episode of the show is titled Fuzzy, Purple and Full of Thorns. The segment is directed by Kukunoor once again and stars Aadhi Pinisetty and Ritu Varma. It is an exploratory tale of finding and understanding relationships, bringing on the same vibe as The Couple from Unpaused Season 2. With a twist of hilarious pseudo-progressive parents and a live-in relationship entailed, the episode is an enjoyable one.
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Why Did She Leave Me There? is the third episode of the series featuring Suhasini Maniratnam, Naresh Agastya and Krishna Manjusha. The story of a grandmother and her grandson and their struggle from the streets to the orphanages to office space, the third segment is more on the sadness and gloom side with a tale that strikes the chords of empathy in your hearts.
What Clown Wrote This Script? by Uday Gurrala, starring Malavika Nair and Abhijeet is another dating story that weirdly feels less generic this time around. A stand-up comedian and a senior producer cross paths in the context to discover the world of OTT, but soon get wrapped into each other. With a nice touch of the famous Jandhyala film festival being represented in this segment, the stand-up routines might have not made the smoothest landings but, is still a quick, breezy watch.
Directed by Devika Bahadhunam, About That Rustle in the Bushes gives us another parent-child dynamic. We meet an overprotective father with a helicopter parenting style and how he takes his daughter’s relationship with another man and the changes, good and bad it brings to the age-old father-daughter bond.
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The last story in the lot is by Venkatesh Maha and is called Finding your Penguin. Komalee Prasad shines as the eccentric microbiologist who compares her dating affairs to that of other animals and birds. With animal-mating skills on the go, Prasad experiments with her dating life in this hilarious and strong segment.
Modern Love Hyderabad: Final Verdict
Overall, Modern Love Hyderabad is as enjoyable as Modern Love Mumbai was, in certain aspects, even better. All the actors put their best foot forward, engrossing us in their ordinary yet unique stories about love, life and Hyderabad.
However, at times the stories feel like they could be set anywhere apart from Hyderabad as the city in itself is not a major instrument in the stories being told as much as human relationships and dynamics are. Keeping this aside, the series is memorable and endearing with new and fresh chapters at every turn of the page.
You can watch Modern Love Hyderabad now on Amazon Prime Video.
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