music school goes to great lengths to represent a case – like that 3 idiots And Taare Zameen Par earlier — to let kids follow their artistic passions and not try to fit them into ready-made molds that people might nod in agreement to before sending their kids to the coaching class, notes Deepa Gahlot.

Let children be children is the much-needed message of Papa Rao Biyyala’s film music school conveyed.

Parents force their own ambitions on their children, and by forcing them to join the hamster wheel, they rob them of their childhood.

At a school in Hyderabad, where acting teacher Manoj (Sharman Joshi) is upset because children keep dropping out of his performances to focus on studying, a music teacher Mary (Shriya Saran) arrives, who has even less success with it. Getting students to learn music.

Manoj suggests that they stop fighting the bureaucracy of the formal education system and open a music school in their apartment complex.

If they match enough kids with relatively enlightened parents who understand the importance of the arts, they plan to put on a production The sound of music.

The witch of the building is a mother (Mona Ambegaonkar) who doesn’t allow her son to do anything other than poring over books until he gets into the IIT.

In such a scenario, the grandmother (Leela Samson) suggests that the teenage Samyukta (Gracy Gowsami) go to Goa for three weeks to rehearse.

They end up at the palatial home of MarY’s parents (Suhasini Mulay-Benjamin Gilani) for an endless picnic, punctuated by songs The sound of music. (What was Mary of the “City of Music,” as she calls it, doing in Hyderabad anyway?)

Samyukta falls in love with the football-playing son of the Nepalese guard Rinchin Thapa (Ozu Barua, son of the filmmaker Jahnu Barua), who plays Liesl the Rolf for her (of which they are allowed to make a beautiful interpretation). you are 16 on stage later in the film), leading to her furious police commissioner father (Prakash Raj) wrinkling his nose violently at wanting his daughter to become a doctor.

The ensuing chase isn’t as dangerous or tense as the Von Trapp family’s escape from the Nazis, but it’s a smart move – the film’s plot matches that of the musical – but Biyyala can’t quite pull it off.

He tries the format of a Hollywood musical, with several scenes in song-and-dance format. But without the skill to pull it off, the film feels like a Doordarshan sitcom from the past.

The group of talented children dance and prance with such energy that the adults look ponderous.

Singer Shaan, who plays Mary’s ex-boyfriend, shows up to sing a Christmas carol and breaks his heart again. However, he is not a bad actor.

Ilayaaraja steps in as music director, but his songs please IT to MIT or Padhte Jao Bachchaalthough they are bubbly, pale in comparison The sound of musicare evergreen numbers.

Biyyala has also cast good actors but they don’t have anything challenging to do.

The film goes to great lengths to convey one thing – how 3 idiots And Taare Zameen Par earlier – to give the kids a chance to pursue their artistic passions and not try to fit them into pre-made molds that people might nod in agreement with before sending their kids to the coaching class.

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