Waltair Veerayya reviews

Waltair Veerayya movie review The filmmakers don't want the audience to respond to the character Waltair Veerayya, but they want us to venerate before the ...

The emotional spine of Waltair Veerayya is the relationship between Veerayya and his young brother. Ravindra aka Bobby creates quite a hype for Waltair Veerayya in the opening minutes and fumbles to maintain the same tempo for the remainder of the narrative. And there is no emotional danger in the narrative for us to worry about the soul of Veerayya. These criminals pose no serious physical threat to a man who is called “the father of the Bay of Bengal”. The head of the kidnappers asks, “What force?” The officer retorts, “Mega force.” So Waltair Veerayya is a friend of the Navy. Cut to the next scene, high-ranking Navy officials are seeking the whereabouts of Waltair Veerayya (Chiranjeevi).

This is a competent masala screenplay elevated by its performances and self-awareness, and its caveats are mostly ubiquitous as far as mass films are ...

Is this something that sticks out only because of the times we live in, or is it an attempt to tailor the film to penetrate northern markets? The film is also helped by good performances from Bobby Simha and Prakash Raj in villainous roles, and by Raviteja’s presence in the second half, despite his character being somewhat underwritten. Shruti Haasan’s character is largely irrelevant to the plot; her character exists only to enable Chiranjeevi to lean into another of his strengths—playing the man who is smitten by a woman, but is intimidated by her and awkward around her—but one wishes that commercial star-vehicles had more age-appropriate romances. When the song tells you “Don’t stop dancing, Poonakalu loading”, it is articulating the grammar of ecstatic celebration in rural terms, in naatu terms. So, the song concludes, the best place to have a party is on Veerayya’s fishing boat, with the music on full blast: the message is clear: they, the elite, don’t really know how to have fun, but we do. In the song 'Boss Party', the lyrics are a debate on what the best place to have a party would be, with arguments put forth on how a beach party wouldn’t have great “reach”, and a cruise party would not allow the “mass” to bloom.