Uppu Kappurambu Review: When space runs out in the burial ground in the fictional village of Chitti Jaya Puram, the newly appointed village head, Apoorva, and the graveyard’s caretaker, Chinna, come up with an ingenious plan to solve the villagers’ problems. Of course, that comes with its own set of issues.
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Uppu Kappurambu Movie Cast
Suhas, Keerthy Suresh, Babu Mohan, Shatru, Talluri Rameshwari
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Uppu Kappurambu Prime Video Director
Ani. I.V. Sasi
The film has a runtime of 136 minutes.
Uppu Kappurambu Review
It’s rare to find nonsensical, slapstick comedy these days, especially on streaming services, but Prime Video’s newest film brings back a genre of comedy that I just wish would stop existing. From the onset, the film is an over-the-top showcase of a village’s eccentric residents, who are all too ready to go up in arms against anything and everything, but rarely can find a way to think 5 seconds ahead.
Newly appointed village head Apoorva finds herself in deep waters when Chinna brings up the issue of the village’s dwindling burial ground space. The villagers immediately erupt as a response and demand that Apoorva come up with a solution… only that Apoorva can’t magically come up with more land on Earth to bury the dead. The villagers are strictly against doing anything else, and so Apoorva’s first administrative problem is, well, quite big.
Uppu Kappurambu is mostly nonsensical, with everyone screaming at the top of their lungs constantly. There’s no dearth of overdoing everything, and every character screams, cries and emotes in the most over-the-top way possible. It’s not necessary, but that’s the brand of comedy that we are given with this film. Considering it’s 2025, this doesn’t make anyone laugh, and the horrifying lack of wit or logic in the film will make you grit your teeth with sheer annoyance.
Keerthy Suresh, as Apoorva, mostly cries dramatically in the first half. It makes your skin crawl, but she’s the protagonist, so we see a lot of that. She’s better in the second half and controls the narrative of her story better, so you want to see her succeed. Meanwhile, Suhas, as Chinna, feels like the only sane person in this film. He’s balanced and level-headed and easy to love. All the characters are wafer-thin and don’t have much going for them. Everyone else either wants to see Apoorva burn, or wants something or the other from her and is screaming.
The plot itself is also wafer-thin, with a problem that is solved very easily. It’s confusing to think about everything that we see throughout the runtime, because it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. The climax is sweet, novel even, but by then my eyes were glazed over and I felt like I was trapped in a nightmare.
Final Thoughts
Uppu Kappurambu, if it wasn’t clear already, is extremely stupid and one-dimensional. There’s nothing of note here, other than some sweet moments of village camaraderie and a delightful Suhas.
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