Songs in several inappropriate places act as speed bumps in the breezy, mindless and fun Teddy. Anyhow, for many of us who are still young at heart, the movie s adult-toy bonding alone may be enough to look past those kinds of issues. Mar 13, 2021 By Sreejith Mullappilly
In Shakti Soundar Rajan s children s film Teddy, Arya s character Shiva is your quintessential Mr Know-All. Shiva s photographic memory allows him to learn martial arts, different languages, scientific things, spiritual stuff, stock exchange shares, and pretty much everything else under the sun. Shiva s special ability results in him realizing why the big teddy bear that appears overnight in his bedroom is talking and behaving like a human being. All it takes is a mere Google search and some reading for him to learn what happened to the Teddy Bear.
Story
Sree Vidhya aka Sree (Sayyeshaa) gets kidnapped by an organ trafficking mafia. She falls in a coma due to overdosage of drugs, and her soul enters a teddy bear. Sree, in the form of Teddy, befriends a genius scholar named Shiva (Arya). How Shiva helps her find her real self thickens the plot.
Script & Direction
Shakthi Soundar Rajan, the writer-director deserves special mention for choosing this unique storyline. But when it comes to the movie experience,
Teddy ends as an average experience. The movie begins on a promising note and keeps us glued to the screens with the freshness in its treatment. But like most films, things go downhill post the first half.
Arya in ‘Teddy’
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Special Arrangement
The Arya-starrer which opted for an OTT release lacks entertaining components to warrant a watch, despite its impressive soundtrack
Teddy has an unreal story line. Worse still are the unrealistic plot points which make it tough to look beyond the misfires and for the positives, if any, in the craft.
The film begins and ends with Sayyeshaa; these are the only two portions in the film featuring her. A college student Srividhya (Sayyeshaa) takes pity on a guy who has met with an accident and tries to help him but injures herself in the process. An ambulance arrives and whisks both victims away. At the hospital, doctors who are part of an organ trafficking network induce Sayyeshaa into a coma following which she proceeds to have an ‘out-of-body’ experience; her ‘spirit’ possesses a teddy bear.