Miss India (film)

Miss India
Official release poster
Directed by	Narendra Nath
Written by	Narendra Nath
Produced by	Mahesh S. Koneru
Starring	Keerthy Suresh Jagapathi Babu Rajendra Prasad Naresh Nadhiya Naveen Chandra Bhanu Sri Mehra
Cinematography	Dani Sanchez-Lopez Sujith Vaassudev
Edited by	Tammiraju
Music by	S. Thaman
Production company	East Coast Productions
Distributed by	Netflix
Release date	4 November 2020 (2020-11-04)
Running time	138 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Miss India is a 2020 Indian Telugu-language business drama film written and directed by Narendra Nath.^[1][2] It stars Keerthy Suresh, Jagapathi Babu, Rajendra Prasad, Naresh, Nadhiya, and Naveen Chandra. The plot follows Manasa Samayuktha (Keerthy), a girl from a middle-class South Indian family, who dreams of having her tea business in the US. The film received average reviews.

The film has been produced by Mahesh S. Koneru under East Coast Productions. Dani Sanchez-Lopez and Sujith Vaassudev handled the cinematography, while S. Thaman composed the music.^[3] The film was planned to be released on 17 April 2020 but has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film is released on Netflix on 4 November 2020 in Telugu along with dubbed versions in Tamil and Malayalam.^[4]

Manasa Samyuktha (Keerthy Suresh), a woman with big goals from a middle-class family, moves to the US after her brother Arjun (Kamal Kamaraju) gets a job. She dreams of starting up her own tea business in the US as promised to her late grandfather Dr. Vishwanath (Rajendra Prasad) and to continue his legacy, but her family does not agree due to the risks involved in running a business. Manasa leaves the home after a fight with her mother and brother as she turns down the marriage proposal with Vijay Anand (Naveen Chandra).

Manasa meets Vikram (Sumanth), a venture capitalist and pitches her business idea. Vikram is impressed and invests in Manasa’s business. Manasa opens her first tea café named “Miss India” in the US along with her friends and attains popularity quickly. She also expands the outlets to other parts of the US in sometime. This angers Kailash Sivakumar aka KSK (Jagapathi Babu) who owns a chain of coffee shops in the US. KSK does not like women growing in business and he views Manasa’s tea as a strong threat for his coffee shops. He waits for an opportunity to destroy Manasa’s business.

Padma (Pujita), one of Manasa’s friends brings a new business deal for Miss India, whereby they need to supply huge quantity of tea ingredients for a retailer in the US, but only on credit basis. Manasa decides to take the risk by accepting the offer much against Vikram’s advice. However, after a few weeks Manasa finds out that the retailer has deferred the payment, and she has been cheated leading to a tight cash crunch at Miss India. Manasa finds that Padma is the traitor and goes to meet her. Padma reveals that she did this as per KSK’s orders in return for a huge sum of money. Manasa has a hidden camera and she records Padma’s confessions and releases it to the media.

Manasa requests the public to help her financially and promises that each person helping her would be turned into a shareholder in Miss India. She receives good amount of money from the public and revives her business. In the end it is shown that KSK is bankrupt.

• Keerthy Suresh as Manasa Samyuktha
• Jagapathi Babu as Kailash Sivakumar a.k.a. KSK
• Rajendra Prasad as Dr. Vishwanath, Manasa, Sahana, and Arjun's grandfather
• Naresh as Sivarama Krishna, Manasa, Sahana, and Arjun's father
• Nadhiya as Kamala, Manasa, Sahana and Arjun's mother
• Naveen Chandra as Vijay Anand, Manasa's former love interest
• Bhanu Sri Mehra as Sahana, Manasa's elder sister
• Sumanth Shailendra as Vikram, Manasa's business partner
• Kamal Kamaraju as Arjun Chaitanya, Manasa's elder brother
• Praveen as Vijju, an employee in Miss India
• Pujita Ponnada as Padma Nayana, Manasa's classmate, and deceiver
• Divya Sripada as Preethi, Manasa's friend

The music is composed by S. Thaman and released by Aditya Music. The first single, "Kotthaga Kotthaga" written by Kalyan Chakravarthi and sung by Shreya Ghoshal and S. Thaman, was released on 7 February 2020.^{[citation needed]} The next single "Lacha Gummadi" was sung by Srivardhini and released on 28 October 2020.^[5] The third single "Theme of Miss India" was sung by Harika Narayan and Sruthi Ranjani and was released on 29 October 2020.^[6] The album was released on 2 November 2020.^[7]

The film was released on Netflix on 4 November 2020 in Telugu along with dubbed versions in Tamil and Malayalam Languages.

The film was given average to mixed reviews by reviewers, with praise for the concept but criticism for various contrivances and inconsistencies in the plot, poor dialogues and characterization, and a lack of understanding of misogyny.^[8][9][10]

• Miss India at IMDb