‘Super Subbu’ review: A sex education instructor finds that humour is the best teacher

Subbu is in the running for the title of the world’s most repressed and oppressed son. Subbu (Sundeep Kishan) is still paying the price for an act committed as a teenager. His father Kukkuteshwar (Murali Sharma), a teacher who fond of such utterances as “It is pure unadulterated nonsense, I say!” has punished the boy by refusing to treat him like a man.

The grown-up Subbu is barely holding on to a teaching position and so accepts a job nobody else wants: to teach sex education to the residents of Maakipur village. Dismissed as a loser by Kukkuteshwar and keen on proving himself to his girlfriend Divya (Maanasa Choudhary), Subbu embarks on a seemingly unwinnable war.

Maakipur is proud of its high fertility rate. There are so many pregnant women in Maakipur because real men live here, one notable boasts. They have chased Subbu’s predecessor away.

Subbu himself is not entirely suited to the task of imparting tips on birth control, menstruation, condom usage and similar touchy topics. Helped by his deputy Kantha (Getup Srinu) and aspiring actress Swathi (Mithila Palkar), Subbu fights his way through a thicket of birds and bees.

The Telugu series Super Subbu on Netflix examines its hero’s travails with generous doses of humour...

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