The makers of the Telugu romantic drama film Butta Bomma have locked its OTT release date. The film stars Anikha Surendran, Arjun Das and Surya Vashistta in the lead roles and was released in cinemas on February 4, 2023.
The plot of Butta Bomma is a bittersweet tale of adolescence and love. But love isn't always rainbows and butterflies. The film received mixed reviews from the audiences and critics alike.
Butta Bomma is inspired by the 2020 Malayalam film, Kappela. According to reports, Butta Bomma’s digital streaming rights have been acquired by OTT giant Netflix. The film will start streaming from March 4, 2023.
Director of the film Shouree Chandrasekhar T Ramesh spoke to New Indian Express and said, “Butta Bomma is relevant to our society today. People who have watched the film so far have had good things to say about it and that is heartening.”
“I watched Kappela during the pandemic and the film’s screenplay grabbed my attention instantly. There are some films that cannot be remade across languages, as it is not possible to recreate their soul. But that was not the case with Kappela. Its story is not only powerful and gripping but is also ripe with potential for adaptation,” Chandrasekhar revealed in his interview.
The filmmaker elaborated, “We wanted the story to be completely tailor-made for the Telugu milieu. Satya, the protagonist of Butta Bomma, comes from a completely remote area, her village had to be in the hinterlands for us to establish why she has an orthodox father who never got her a camera phone.”
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“Instead of choosing to set the story in the Godavari region, or other parts of coastal Andhra, which is the go-to place for most Telugu films set against a rural backdrop, we chose to build the world of Butta Bomma in the Araku valley. Much of the changes we incorporated are present in the first half of the film, in the second half we stuck largely to the original screenplay,” Shouree Chandrasekhar T Ramesh said in his interview.