Here is my review of @MalleshamMovie.

It is a Hindutva project.

When did I realize?

My 12 yr old compared it with “the boy who harnessed the wind” and mentioned that both are about electrical systems and circuits - STEM

That certain “Hindu technological libido”! 1/n

Mallesham grows up in 80s Telangana when progressive Naxal movement was sweeping across the the state. Yet instead of picking up the gun he sticks to his regressive traditional family trade. Even the red saree he weaves while growing up doesn’t transform him!

Mallesham’s dad always wears his religion on his forehead and Mallesham even wears Janeu - which the director ensures to show through the gaps in Mallesham’s Banian!

Mallesham’s pregnant wife goes to her parents home for delivery and her regressive superstitious mom takes her directly to the Puja room!

Abdul who helps Mallesham is shown as a lazy Hyderabadi who apes his Lucknow cousins and tries to impress everyone with his poetry

For Diwali people burst crackers outside Mallesham’s house and his wife considers that a celebration - echoing Hindutva warriors

And worse still - there is a Patel in the movie who is a simple loan shark but doesn’t rape workers nor keep bonded laborers - unlike other progressive Telugu movies of previous generation depicted!

Then the last nail - Mallesham goes to Sultan Bazar, buys books on microcontrollers, learns to program and improvises his machine!

See!? he prefers Technology! But not some political ‘science’!

That certain Hindu technological libido in play again!

And Mudi gives him Padmasri!