Waltair Veerayya movie review: Neither Chiranjeevi nor Ravi Teja can save this film from drowning in shallowness
Waltair Veerayya begins with an outdated and defeated cop Seethapati (Rajendra Prasad) on the lookout for the one who might help him avenge the dying of his colleagues. He’s on the lookout for a person who can monitor and produce a robust felony Solomon Caesar (Bobby Simha) to justice. In the course of the jailbreak, Solomon kills everybody on the police station below the management of Seethapati and escapes to Malaysia.
Seethapati stumbles on the fitting man for the job after watching a infamous gangster moist himself on listening to the identify Waltair Veerayya. We now know that Waltair Veerayya is a nightmare for satraps of the underworld. However, who’s he really and what are his powers?
Minimize to the subsequent scene, high-ranking Navy officers are in search of the whereabouts of Waltair Veerayya (Chiranjeevi). The nation’s armed forces are in dire want of his assist because the officers specific the shortcoming to make use of drive at their disposal to avoid wasting 4 Navy males who’ve been kidnapped by Bangladeshi smugglers. Purpose: pouring rain and uneven waves.
The highest Navy officer calls the top of the abductors and tells him that he has despatched a drive to cease him. The pinnacle of the abductors asks, “What drive?” The officer retorts, “Mega drive.” So Waltair Veerayya is a pal of the Navy. He’s an influential determine among the many criminals and a guardian angel for males in uniform.
No, we haven’t gained the total extent of Veerayya’s powers but. Veerayya not solely has superman-like sway over people however has additionally tamed the oceans. “The daddy of Bay of Bengal,” says one of many kidnapped officers taking a look at Veerayya using a tiny fishing boat braving the storm and raging waves. As if on cue, the waves rise to provide Veerayya’s boat a definite benefit in opposition to a giant ship.
Thus Waltair Veerayya is introduced to us as a person with superhuman capabilities. He’s not human. He’s god-like. The filmmakers don’t need the viewers to reply to the character Waltair Veerayya, however they need us to venerate earlier than the star enjoying Waltair Veerayya. And that form of presentation causes a disconnection. If you current a hero, who can manipulate the forces of nature, you could additionally current a villain who can match his powers. Not Michael Caesar (Prakash Raj) and Solomon. These criminals pose no severe bodily risk to a person who is named “the daddy of the Bay of Bengal”. And there’s no emotional hazard within the narrative for us to fret concerning the soul of Veerayya. It’s all simply surface-level with none depth.
Director-writer Ok. S. Ravindra aka Bobby creates fairly a hype for Waltair Veerayya within the opening minutes and fumbles to keep up the identical tempo for the rest of the narrative. The movie falls sufferer to its personal hype. To name the plot contrivances in Waltair Veerayya surprising is an understatement. Bobby takes the viewers with no consideration as he assumes that they’d pay little consideration to the disingenuous cause-and-effect mechanism within the narrative so long as the movie stays targeted on the antics of Waltair Veerayya.
Veerayya butchers gang members of a drug cartel throughout a pageant celebration at a well-liked temple in Malaysia. The devotees and people performing on the pageant proceed to do their factor as if they’re celebrating the killings executed by Veerayya. In the identical scene, Veerayya spectacularly murders his enemy whereas sitting on an elephant. And that homicide is televised throughout Malaysian channels however Veerayya faces no repercussions. As if no one within the Malaysian authorities cares when a person brandishes lethal weapons and terrorises the general public of their nation.
And simply earlier than mounting the ultimate assault in opposition to his enemy, Veerayya breaks right into a duet quantity together with his crush Athidhi (Shruti Haasan). What’s the joys in breaking the strain after struggling to construct it a lot?
The emotional backbone of Waltair Veerayya is the connection between Veerayya and his younger brother. However, even that suffers a severe beating when Veerayya’s child brother asks him to homicide their frequent enemy as a part of vigilante justice. What well-meaning brother, who is aware of the ins and outs of India’s authorized system, would ask that of his brother?
The confrontation scenes between Chiranjeevi’s Veerayya and Ravi Teja’s Vikram Sagar usher in much-needed comedian reduction. However, they aren’t sufficient to avoid wasting a poorly written film spruced up by good manufacturing worth. Composer Devi Sri Prasad’s duets do extra injury than good to the narrative.
