‘Comrade Kalyan’ movie review: Sree Vishnu’s brain-rot comedy delivers a few good laughs

Brain-rot comedies hold a special value on those days when nothing makes much sense. They remind the audience to take themselves lightly and treat things at face value. The only promise of these comedies is to shut off reality and deliver a few silly laughs. Comrade Kalyan , directed by Janakiram Marella, is that utterly nonsensical film, quite aware of its own silliness.

At no point does Sree Vishnu’s comedy boast about conveying anything remotely meaningful. The film starts with Kalyan (Sree Vishnu) singing a supposedly revolutionary number to inspire crowds to join a rebel group, but it later mocks itself as an attempt to lure viewers into watching an R. Narayana Murthy film, Erra Sainyam , in a shady theatre in a sleepy village.