Kumari 21F (2015) on Netflix
Siddhu, a chef in K.G.B. colony, dreams of working on a cruise liner. He falls for Kumari, a model from Mumbai, but his friends keep raising doubts about her past.
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Plot summary
Siddhu cooks for a living in K.G.B. colony and shares a home there with his mother; his aim is a job on a cruise liner in Singapore, out of reach on his earnings. His friends Shankar, Srinu and Suresh rob people at the local ATM and hide out in nearby ruins, and Siddhu cooks for them in exchange for a share. Kumari, a model from Mumbai, moves into the colony, and she and Siddhu fall in love. Her bold, free manner confuses him, and his friends say she has had boyfriends before him. The talk about her past unsettles Siddhu, and when he proposes marriage, Kumari refuses, saying he is not mature enough to love her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kumari 21F (2015)
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- Writer Sukumar based Kumari 21F on his college days in Razole, where a young woman who went to a picnic with young men was rumoured about and unfairly labelled a "loose" character.
- Music composer Devi Sri Prasad and cinematographer R. Rathnavelu both worked on Kumari 21F without pay; Rathnavelu said he took the job to rejuvenate himself after Lingaa and because of the script and his friendship with Sukumar.
- The Central Board of Film Certification gave Kumari 21F an adults-only certificate and asked the makers to trim a lip-kissing sequence, mute several lines of dialogue and make a few cuts.
- Krishna Nagar in Hyderabad was the first choice as the film's backdrop, but cinematographer R. Rathnavelu chose an isolated colony instead, and 60% of Kumari 21F was shot at the R&B colony in Malakpet.
- A first-look poster for Kumari 21F, released in October 2015, was alleged to have been plagiarised from the Russian magazine Chai-llot.
- Cinematographer R. Rathnavelu shot Kumari 21F with limited equipment and mostly natural light, using digital low-light photography that needed only 80% of the lighting normally required.
- Hebah Patel said filming intimate scenes was uncomfortable because so many people were on set, but she had prepared in a workshop beforehand and being friends with co-star Raj Tarun made it less awkward.
