Comedy is subjective, they say. But ‘K-Ramp’ pushes that idea to its limits, because to call the film a “comedy” is in itself a joke. While Malayalam cinema has created films like ‘Premalu’ that celebrate Hyderabad with wit and cultural respect, ‘K-Ramp’ takes the opposite route in Kerala. It neither understands the locale nor its people, and the loudest laughs in theatres come not from humour but from the exaggerated Malayalam accents of the Malayalis it attempts to depict. If that counts as comedy, the film succeeds only in laughing at its own concept of laughter.

The story follows Kumar Abbavaram (Kiran Abbavaram), the stereotypical carefree son of a millionaire — a template outdated even in 2015. He leads a lavish, purposeless life until his father, Krishna (Sai Kumar), in a bid to in

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