Mallik Ram, writer and director of Super Subbu, adopts a very Rajkumar Hirani approach in his Netflix Telugu original series. The sitcom is set in small-town Telangana, in a fictional village named Maakipur, and the idea appears to create a sex comedy where the jokes come first but with a strong side of progressive messaging about the importance of sex education. It begins in Hyderabad, where Subbu (an enjoyable Sundeep Kishan) has grown up in a very strict home controlled by his very strict Brahmin father (played by Murli Sharma). His father’s a math teacher, and he’s raised in the kind of household where watching porn is akin to committing murder. Even in his late 20s, he gets nightmares at the very thought of sex. So when all of the villagers in Maakipur discover that he’s still a virgin (or ‘virginee’ as they call him), it’s not only because he hasn’t been with a woman. He hasn’t even been with…himself.
Imagine the wildness the plot naturally leads to when he must then teach a class of villagers a life lesson on masturbation. The episodes are divided a lot like chapters of a text book. So if one episode is written around family planning and contraception, then another deals with sex determination. The one that comes together most entertainingly discusses consent. More than 10 years after films like Pink (or its remake, Vakeel Saab, in Telugu), we get to see the struggles of a sex education officer like Subbu, trying to explain consent to a group of women who may have never had the luxury to say no.
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