Virupaksha Movie Review: Sai Dharam Tej shines in this compelling supernatural horror flick – India Today

By Latha Srinivasan: The beginnings of this horror movie are in a small village known as Rudravanam in 1978 the place we see a pair carry out black magic and sacrifice a younger woman to appease the gods for no matter causes. The villagers cease the couple from killing their woman kids and burn them to demise for his or her heinous crimes. As the lady dies, she offers a curse that every one the individuals within the village will die in 12 years. The villagers although let the couple’s son go and stay in an orphanage outdoors the village and banish him from there.

Minimize to 1991, we see Surya (Sai Dharam Tej), his pal and his mom arrive at Rudravanam because the mom needs to donate her land for a great trigger for the village. They keep again for the pageant of the village deity Modamamba and that is when Surya meets Nandini (Samyuktha), sarpanch Harishchandra Prasad’s (Rajiv Kanakala) daughter. He falls in love together with her however quickly it’s time for him to return to town and that is when issues awry.

Simply because the pageant begins, one of many villagers falls on the toes of the Goddess within the sanctum sanctorum and dies. That is seen as a foul omen and the villagers are prohibited from leaving Rudravanam for eight days to cleanse the village. However a sequence of different deaths quickly observe and it’s lastly Nandini who’s affected. Surya decides to analyze what’s going on. Who’s performing black magic within the village? Will Surya be capable of save Nandini?

Sai Dharam Tej has made a great comeback after his accident and he performs this function with plenty of ease. However it’s Samyuktha who actually has a meaty function right here and she or he has greater than delivered. The sound design and music by Ajaneesh Loknath must be counseled, in addition to the cinematography, since this film relies upon lots on these facets. This film isn’t just about some evil presence – it has been narrated nicely with a convincing story in order that the viewers turns into invested within the story. The director has made a great debut and, after all, Sukumar additionally deserves credit score for this.

The film is rated A because of the violence and a number of the scenes depicted. Whereas the climax of the movie could attraction to some and to not others, the movie focuses on superstitions which some individuals within the nation nonetheless consider in. It must be meals for thought. On the entire, the movie is an efficient entertainer.

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