‘Size Sexy.....’ , goes the lyric in the music-video launched by Soundarya aka Sweety. Sweety an overweight girl, reaches out to people uncomfortable with their obesity. It’s a part funny, part sizzling item number, with Sweety dancing with gay abandon. She comes to terms with her obesity and wants to reach out to others with a similar problem. The film revolves around Anushka who essays Sweety.
Partly due to her weight gain and partly due to the costumes, Anushka looks the character. But somewhere it seems a put-on, the actress’s glamour quotient breaking through. An insipid screenplay and a lackluster narration too ensures that the film, a bilingual (‘Size Zero’ in Telugu), has minimalistic appeal.
Sweety realising the futility of going to a fitness center, has a mission now. To bring to the attention of the public the unscrupulous ways some fitness-clinics function and to convey that fitness centres are not the ideal solution for weight loss. But the message gets lost somewhere in the lackluster scenario. Arya plays Abhi a documentary film -maker and fitness enthusiast. His role is more of a by-stander, providing moral support to Sweety in her distress. Arya has not much to do here. As his girl friend, Sonal with her hour-glass figure exudes oomph. For what is meant to be a rom-com, there is neither much of romance here, nor even a semblance of humour. While the first half is tolerable, the screenplay takes a nosedive in the second, never to recover.
The film has a strong Telugu flavour. It’s probably because most of its supporting actors are from Telugu films. Like Brahmanandam, Ali, Bharani, etc. Also, at places the Tamil lines being dubbed on Telugu ones, the lip sync goes haywire. The songs hardly register. Neerav Shah’s rich frames, is a positive for the film. There were films made in other languages dealing with the problem of obesity. Like ‘Dum Lagake Haisha’ (Hindi) and ‘Da Thadiya’ (Malayalam), the latter also dealing with fitness centers and their unscrupulous ways of making money. But they were much more interesting than this one. At times the film is a test of endurance, and seems much longer than its viewing time of 125 minutes. ‘Inji Iduppazhagi’ is a big yawn.