Balu (Kalyan Ram) loses his parents when he was a small kid and that made him yearn for relationships more in life.
One day, he has come up with an idea to start an agency named All Is Well Emotions Suppliers. The agency would supply a family member when some when needed. A relationship on hire is the concept.
He would send a son or grandson or brother when someone is feeling lonely. His friends and girlfriend Nandini (Mehreen) are also part of this agency.
What problems he would face and what relations he would forge is the rest of the drama.
Rent a Family is a concept that is quite popular in Japan. Newspaper reports suggest that family renting agencies are thriving there. In a highly populated country like India, where family relations are strong, this concept sounds bizarre.
But Kalyan Ram while pitching the idea of this agency in the film argues this the concept of buying bottled water two decades ago sounded absurd but today everyone is buying the water. Similarly, this rent a family member would be welcomed, he says and they buy his theory.
This concept in Entha Manchivaadavuraa, directed by Shatamanam Bhavati fame Satish Vegesna, is taken from a Gujarati movie.
The problem is that Satish Vegesna has failed to narrate this in a convincing or engaging way. There is no strong conflict here to hold the story.
After establishing a couple of scenes about this concept of selling emotions, the film runs out of ideas. So, the director has included some silly gags and boring love track between hero and heroine. The villains (played by Rajiv Kanakala) angle is added forcibly.
With the film moving slower than snails pace, our levels of patience decrease. Filled with cliched moments and lethargic narration, the family drama puts us in sleeping mode. The less said about the second half the better.
The films name is Entha Manchivaadavuraa (What A Good Man You Are) but by interval, we feel Entha Twaraga Aipotey Manchidiraa.
In a nutshell, the family drama has turned into a big bore.
