Sing Geetham movie review: At 94, Singeetam Srinivasa Rao delivers a musical fable | Movie-review News
Some films take years to make. Sing Geetham took nearly a lifetime. The idea lived in Singeetham Srinivasa Rao’s head for close to four decades before a producer finally said yes. This explains why the film feels the way it does: deeply personal, unique, stubbornly unconventional, and made with the kind of sincerity that cannot be manufactured. The man who once made a film without dialogues asks you to imagine a world where everyone sings, quite literally. Kuberapuram is a fictional village in Andhra Pradesh that feels like it exists slightly outside of real time. It sits on gold, and outside interests have noticed. A young man named Pratap (Ayaan) arrives expecting a business opportunity. What he finds instead is a community that is holding itself together with less and less left to hold. At the center of the village’s resistance is Gowri (Ahilya Bamroo), a young woman with an unshakeable attachment to the land and the life it sustains. A gold mining operation managed by Renu (Shalini Kondepudi) is slowly eating into both. Then, …
