Veera Simha Reddy Review

Following the grand success of the film Akhanda, Balakrishna collaborated with director Gopichand Malineni for an out-and-out mass action drama, in the form of Veera Simha Reddy. The movie has Shruti Haasan as the leading actress, and has been released today, on the eve of the Sankranthi festival. Let’s see how the movie has turned out to be.

Story:

Jai and his mother (Meenakshi) live in Turkey, Meenakshi runs a restaurant and Jai own a car dealership and falls in love with Sandhya (Shruthi Hassan) who lives in Istanbul.

After her father insists to meet Jai’s parents to settle the wedding, Jai’s father Veera Simha Reddy comes to Turkey, which is when Jay meets his father for the first time. Things take a drastic turn around when Veera Simha Reddy comes to Turkey, as his past follows him. What is that past forms the rest of the story.

On-Screen Performances:

Balakrishna, as always, is in his element. He perfectly embodies the raw and rustic nature of his character, a role that is tailor-made for him who has been seen in similar roles many times before. He is good in the over-the-top action sequences as well, and his dialogues are a treat to his fans.

Shruti Haasan is ok in the film and dances well in the songs, but doesn’t have anything much to do story. Certain forced comedy scenes through her character don’t work good.

Honey Rose, who made her Tollywood debut with the movie is the surprising factor of the movie, as she is very good in her role. As a mother and as VSR’s love interest, the actress has done well in the movie, and has also contributed well in the glamour role.

Varalaxmi Sarathkumar is perfect in her role, and her emotion is perfectly shown in the movie and her scenes with Balakrishna particularly stand out. The rest of the supporting cast, such as Murali Sharma and Naveen Chandra, are good enough in their roles.

Off-Screen Talents:

Director Gopichand Malineni has come up with couple of twists in the movie, and while they’re good, they are also not novel for the fans and viewers. The screenplay lags quite a bit throughout the film. However, the director failed to incorporate any entertaining/comedy scenes into the screenplay.

The movie feels too long and boring after a certain point and the only saving grace of the movie would be Varalaxmi’s emotion track, which “might” appeal to a section of people. On the whole, he seems to have just recycled stories that have already been seen before.

A few songs composed by Thaman are good, but the bgm composed by the music director is not extraordinary as one would expect, and is just fine, especially when compared to the kind of background music he provided for Akhanda.

The production values of the movie are good, and the cinematography is good. The editing could have been a lot better, with the movie’s runtime having been made much crisper.

Positive Points:

VSR’s getup

Few drama parts in second half

Couple of songs

Negative Points:

Age old concept

Lack of entertainment

Runtime of the film

Entire first half

Overall Verdict:

Veera Simha Reddy is a film that will cater mostly to Balayya’s die-hard fans, for its over the top action scenes. Otherwise, the movie is just a routine faction drama that has loud music, action scenes and a routine story, which may not appeal to the common people.