“If the jokes land, everything else is forgotten,” is an quotation that applies to all films that are trying their luck in comedy style, especially banks on sketches instead of a solid story. The recent success of the Telugu film ‘Mad Square’ is an ideal example – it is a film that was a commercial hit by offering familiar characters and jokes around them, and very little.

The ‘Singal’ starring Shri Vishnu, Venela Kishore, Ivana and Ketika Sharma, is another film, which attempts to woo the audience with its one-lineer jokes, which is loaded into a plot moving around a love triangle and packed in the context of the biggest stars of the Telugu film industry. Directed by Carter Raju, ‘single’ represents the life of all single boys who are desperate to find love. However, is this “representation” an entertaining enterprise? Let’s know!

The film opens with Vijay (Sri Vishnu), who prays to God to give him his single life and he gets a girlfriend. Vijay is an insurance agent with his childhood best friend Arvind (Venela Kishore), who is also an insurance agent working for the same company. While traveling on the metro, Vijay collided in Gorwa (Ketika Sharma) and immediately falls for him. In an attempt to conquer him, he makes a web of lies around him.

One of these lies involves staging the Eve-Tzing incident with rented goons, only to interfere with it and save the day. While the plan works on Gorav, it affects Harini (Ivana), which has been mistaken by fake goons for Gorava. Now, while Vijay tries to influence Gorav, Harini is trying to do the same with Vijay, all are entangled in a web of lies. Arvind, in the midst of all this, is stuck to take jabs from every direction. What will happen when the truth comes out? Who will end together? Who will be heartbreak? Answers to these questions make more plot of this film.

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Mr. Vishnu, Venela Kishore and Jokes are the best parts of this film. With two artists, his comic timing and jokes written by director Kathik Raju, it works well to create a good comedy entertainer. While not all jokes are according to the land, the film is so full of them that it does not take a long time to hit the next one, so that you do not get time to stay in the last.

Shri Vishnu is in his famous comic element, with his funny quirks, expressions and methods. He brings energy through a certain ‘mischievous region boy’ through his character. However, it is the Venela teenager who inspires the most loud laughter with its quick-bustle forest-liners. He attains his because of his complete role in the end – although a sidekick, he still leaves an impact with his comic talents.

Kytika Sharma looks very beautiful in the film as she really plays a not-in-disappointment character. Ivana, which also looks beautiful, uses her emotional backstory and also shows some acting abilities. Nevertheless, despite having two good -looking women in its corner, it is the chemistry of Shri Vishnu with Venela Kishore who steals the show!

‘Single’ is a very conservative comedy film made keeping in mind the recent trends and sensations. Everything – from treatment, screenplay and structure to music and technical departments – follows the same old view for filmmaking. The story is paper and scattered in all directions, the director has tried to keep it together and force it in the final culmination. Due to no insult to any party, the plot is inspired by one of the people who are deliberately inspired by the Cring-Uptoran Instagram reels.

However, while this can happen with the story, the final goal of a comedy film is to make the audience laugh. And this is what the manufacturers of ‘single’ promised. Since they have arrived at that front, the film is definitely worth a clock. Despite its flaws, going back to the initial quotation: “If the jokes forget everything else.”