The makers of Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty might have decided to keep it simple, classy and play safe from the word go. The romance drama brings together two people with different outlooks on relationships, marriage and parenthood, laced with a lot of humour, some of which is smart and some of it just basic. The lead actors — Naveen Polishetty with his impeccable comic timing and Anushka Shetty who is all poise — make the film with a predictable story reasonably enjoyable.
Anvita Shetty (Anushka Shetty) is a masterchef who moves to Hyderabad from the UK after a turn of events. Everything around her is of restrained classiness, just like the perfectly plated dishes from her kitchen. To borrow from a stand-up comedy line that comes elsewhere in the film, her world is like the roasted aubergine delicately topped with spices as against the greasy, spicy vankaya (brinjal) bajji that Sidhu Polishetty (Naveen Polishetty) is habituated to.
Director Mahesh Babu’s story makes the two cross paths in a ‘what if’ situation. She is shy of romance and marriage but wants to become a mother to fill the void in her life. She is on the lookout for a sperm donor with likeable character traits. He is one of the several guys we would have seen around us — studied engineering, has a boring IT job and finds happiness in an art form. In Sidhu’s case, it is stand-up comedy.
