Veera Simha Reddy movie review: This Nandamuri Balakrishna starrer has no soul
Filmmaker Gopichand Malineni is a lazy filmmaker and living proof is his newest directorial Veera Simha Reddy. Starring Nandamuri Balakrishna within the lead function, the movie calls for from the viewers absolute, unconditional and unquestioning loyalty. When you can’t agree to those phrases, then this film has nearly nothing to supply, besides the hyper-stylized violent sequences.
The opening moments of a movie are essential because it enjoys the viewers’s absolute consideration. And a reliable filmmaker would put his finest effort to make the opening of the film memorable. However, not Gopichand. The movie’s opening scene is so generic that it fades away from our reminiscence minutes after we watch it. The story opens in Istanbul, the place Meenakshi (Honey Rose) is working a restaurant, serving ragi mudde and nation hen curry. For some motive, a resort mogul desires to purchase her small enterprise. She says no and he slaps her. It offers her son and our hero Jai Simha Reddy (Balakrishna) to beat the resort mogul and his males to a pulp. After which there’s a circulate of totally unrealistic sequences that numb our brains.
It suffices to say that Jai meets Eesha (Shruti Haasan) and takes it upon himself to tame her conceitedness and switch her into a perfect girl. When you’ve got watched this trope as soon as, you might have watched it 1,000,000 instances. And as anticipated, it really works. Now Eesha’s father desires to fulfill Jai’s mother and father to repair their marriage. And eventually, Meenakshi decides to inform Jai the reality about his father, Veera Simha Reddy (Balakrishna, once more).
Veera is the defender of helpless folks within the Rayalaseema district. Right here the movie expects us to take a big cognitive leap that in Rayalaseema there is no such thing as a rule of legislation. Like in historic instances, the villages in that place are being dominated by uncrowned kings. Some kings are good and a few are unhealthy. No prizes for guessing to which class Veera belongs. However, there’s a unhealthy ruler named Gangi Reddy, who’s terrorising his folks. Gangi is a textbook psychopath who has no worth for all times. Veera prevails over Gangi and rescues the folks within the village. Now, Gangi’s son Pratap Reddy (Duniya Vijay) vows to avenge his father. That is simply a part of the flashback. In one other half, we see Veera repeatedly sparing the lifetime of Pratap. Why is Veera not killing Pratap?
The whole lot that occurs on this movie is one thing we’ve seen Balakrishna do 100 instances earlier than. Didn’t he do the identical issues in his final movie? Sure, he did. And he’ll proceed to take action within the foreseeable future. For Balakrishna, creating materials for self-serving functions takes priority over creating an trustworthy work of leisure for folks’s enjoyment. In that course of, Balakrishna invented a brand new style for himself. It’s referred to as the Jai Balayya style. The movie made on this style with this star is all about adulation and blind loyalty. Individuals with even the slightest inclination to assume independently, can’t assist however really feel repulsed by what’s unspooling on the display screen.
The troubling a part of Veera Simha Reddy, by that token most of Balakrishna’s motion pictures, is that it argues it’s okay to kill to resolve an issue. And the act of killing somebody is immediately related to at least one’s manliness. In case you are man sufficient, you’ll kill. If not, you’re going to get killed. There’s nothing extra at stake right here aside from just a few inflated egos of males who’ve poisonous relationships with their manliness. This movie has no soul or readability. It’s only a sequence of mindless, make-believe violence strung collectively to propagate a false message that violence may repair all issues.
Even an AI software can give you a greater plot than Gopichand.