‘Epic – First Semester’ movie review: A promising but incomplete coming-of-age story
The film 'Epic – First Semester' is a coming-of-age story directed by Aditya Haasan that explores the struggles of young adults navigating professional and personal pressures. While the film is praised for its fresh, unconventional screenplay, it is also criticized for feeling incomplete and lacking emotional closure.
Why it matters
It highlights the evolving landscape of Telugu cinema as new directors experiment with non-traditional storytelling and character-driven narratives.
Epic – First Semester arrives with expectations, largely because of director Aditya Haasan and the reunion of Baby leads Anand Deverakonda and Vaishnavi Chaitanya . While this is Aditya’s feature directorial debut, the runaway success of his nostalgia-soaked web series 90s’: A Middle Class Biopic and his first production, Little Hearts , a breezy rom-com, has already established him as a promising new voice in Telugu cinema.
With Epic , Aditya takes a leap of faith, holding back from pandering to familiar mainstream tropes. The tagline, ‘an unfinished story’, and the words ‘point of view’ following the director’s credit suggest an intent to push the boundaries of the coming-of-age story.
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