Review of movie Veera Bhoga Vasantha Rayalu

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Rating:2/5

Veera Bhoga Vasantha Rayalu is a film that tries to take on too much at once and fails at it. While its basic premise, that’s revealed right at the end, aims to tie up every single loose thread in the tale, it just fails to do so. But, this basic premise is also something that gives you a glimpse into the kind of the potential the film had, especially so when the makers are aiming at a sequel with a time-jump too. But VBVR suffers from a major drawback – being directed by an amateur debutant Indrasena R.

The film begins showcasing the jaunts of vigilante Veera Bhoga Vasantha Rayalu (Sree Vishnu) who rides a white steed and is the self-proclaimed cleanser of earth, purging our country of its scum. Then there’s a child prodigy Nikhil, who’s left heartbroken when his parents are killed and his friend abducted. SI Vijay Kumar (Sudheer Babu) gets to handle a peculiar case when a young boy turns up at the station, complaining that his house and parents are both missing. As if these stories by themselves aren’t enough, there’s also the tale of the missing flight, consisting of 300 VIPs. Heading the special investigative team formed to locate the flight is Deepak Reddy (Nara Rohith), aided by Inspector Neelima (Shriya Saran).

Despite having a run-time of just 2 hours, the way all the narratives are crammed in makes it seem longer. Too many characters, plot holes and incidents to remember don’t help this film in any manner either nor does the predictability. VBVR seems massively confused about the genre it wants to fit in and the kind of tone it wants to set – going dead serious one minute and trying to lighten the mood the next. While the story is really not difficult to follow, the film tries hard to be otherwise, aiming to pull the rug from under you multiple times but failing at doing so. With so many tracks to follow, the narrative gets choppy and repetitive after a while instead of flowing from one story to the next seamlessly. It just seems like a character study gone wrong.

While Sree Vishnu, Nara Rohith, Shriya Saran and Sudheer Babu deliver good enough performances, the dubbing given for Shriya and Sudheer both are disconcerting. Sree Vishnu’s body language is understandable, looking at his character development, but the fact that he delivers dialogues without any menace, like he would in any other film does not help. After sitting through what seems like a 2-hour long film project put together haphazardly, the only hope most might be left with is that Indrasena improves his directorial skills and Sree Vishnu his dialogue delivery at least in the sequel.