Don’t Trouble The Trouble Review: 3 Stars for Fahadh’s Magic

A Telugu detour that finds its feet on streaming

Fahadh Faasil’s first full-length Telugu lead is a very different beast from the bald, menacing Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat he played in Pushpa. In Don’t Trouble The Trouble, he is Suri, an orphaned ambulance driver who chases quick money and has never learned to sit with anyone else’s feelings. When gangster Aslam Bhai (Mahesh Manjrekar) demands ₹25 lakh within two days, Suri decides kidnapping a rich child is the fastest fix.

That child is Divya, played by Ssara Palekar, a girl obsessed with magic and magicians. Suri doesn’t know that Divya carries a secret, and the kidnapping slides quickly into a comedy of errors rather than a thriller. Saurabh Sachdeva’s Pratap, who is searching for his missing family, adds another layer of urgency without pushing the film out of its light tone.

What works — and where it wobbles

The review points to Fahadh as the main reason this works. After Aavesham’s goofy gangster and the cheerful surface of his character in Odum Kuthira Chaadum Kuthira, he returns to high-energy comedy with what Koimoi calls “infectious energy.” It lands because Suri’s dishonesty plays against Divya’s innocence, and the two actors’ chemistry gives the film its warmth.

Music by RRR composer Kaala Bhairava does quiet, unflashy work: it lifts key beats without drowning them. The climax, however, is where the review flags a wobble. It may feel a little too cheesy for some viewers, but that is also where the film’s idea of magic becomes clear — magic is not just a rabbit from a hat, it is the way love can transform a man who has never learned empathy.

Who it is for

This is a family watch. The three-star verdict lands with a simple instruction: don’t bring too much logic. If you do, the final stretch may lose you. If you don’t, it is a warm, mildly magical ride that runs around 150 minutes and now lives on Netflix, where many theatrical underperformers find their actual audience after the 4–8-week window.

• The hook: A goofy Fahadh in a rare Telugu lead, playing a kidnapper with a soft landing.
• The heart: Divya and Suri’s odd-couple journey, more endearing than perilous.
• The caveat: The climax leans into cheese, and the film asks you to accept it.

For Hindi film fans, it is a low-commitment way to see why Fahadh is one of Malayalam cinema’s most-watched actors. The Telugu dialogue and subtitles don’t dilute the physical energy that makes Suri watchable, and the child-led premise makes it a rare family option on a Friday night.

Fahadh’s move into Telugu cinema as a protagonist is the kind of choice that invites second-guessing. Yet Don’t Trouble The Trouble reads as a deliberate palette-cleanser: a kids’ film in a market that keeps asking where the good ones have gone. It may not have set the box office alight, but on streaming it gets the chance to be found by exactly the audience it was made for.

Source: Koimoi