Ram Venkat Srikar
The film is so unapologetically silly that it is hard to take it seriously. Even if you try to, you are likely to laugh at yourself for even thinking about seriously critiquing this film because everything on display, from start to finish is pure madness.
Think of the decidedly silly and innocent tonality of Jathi Ratnalu (2021) and marry it with the witty world of 3 Iditots (minus all the serious, thought-provoking bits)
Fill it with oddball characters from Chhichhore (2019) and sprinkle it with the 'All fun no study' energy of the elite high school from Student Of The Year (2012) and you have MAD imbibing the most joyous traits of all these films to deliver a rollicking ride.
MAD is set in an engineering college where education is given the same importance as physics is given in Boyapati Srinu films. Naturally, this eliminates the argument about the film being a realistic depiction of the education system in India. It isn't.
Thankfully, the humour in MAD is largely original, meaning it doesn't simply refer to existing pop culture to elicit laughter. Barring a couple of gags, the comedy never relies on double entendres or toilet humour.