Somberi

Somberi (transl. Lazy guy) is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language comedy drama film directed, written by poet Jonnavithula. Ali plays the lead role while Ruksha, Tanikella Bharani, M. S. Narayana, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam play other roles.

Sombabu (Ali), the only son of well-to-do farmers, is a pampered guy and a wastrel. His laziness is the talk of the town; though, as is usual with this kind of movies, the village folk are equally eloquent about his good nature.

Being a lout, Sombabu wastes his days roaming around the village with his four stooges, swindling foreigners in the guise of a tourist guide, and consuming liquor in buckets. On one such day, he chances upon Rohini (Ruksha), who has come to the village to do a project on the temple. He promptly falls in love with her, but dallies about proposing.

Meanwhile, a team of three villains (Jeeva, Jayaprakash Reddy, A.V.S. Subramanyam) covet the land belonging to Sombabu's parents. They hatch a plan to get Sombabu out of the way, the upshot of it being that our hero is imprisoned for stealing idols. The movie continues its meandering and mind-numbing path, and ends on an expected note.

A critic from The Hindu wrote that "One can give this film a miss".^[1] A critic from Full Hyderabad wrote that "Unless you are as jobless as the hero of this movie is, do not venture to watch this one".^[2]

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