Vedaa movie review: Daftly rigged Vedaa

Film VedaaDirector Nikkhil AdvaniActors John Abraham SharvariRating 155While this may be true for many filmmakers who arenrsquot in equal parts writerdirector you observe the inconsistencies far more in the works of Nikkhil AdvaniDepending altogether on the scriptmaterial handed to him to directmdashthings can go totally south or northwardsConsider his brilliantly written series Rocket Boys on scientists Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai Simply compare it to the shoddy show Mumbai Diaries 2021 about 2611While both are supposedly based on reallife events the latter plays up fiction to such astral levels that it never does landThe same can be said for Advanirsquos perfectly fine last theatrical release Batla House 2019 on the 2008 encounter episode Compare it to this debilitatingly deranged wholly unhinged actioner VedaaIt is so widely off the mark of anything to do with Haryanarsquos ManojBabli honour killings more so UPrsquos Meenakshi Kumari khappanchayat Dalit atrocities and womenrsquos rape case the events that the movie is supposedly inspired fromIt becomes impossible then to anchor the brain on to anything in particular let alone make sense of it Also there is simply no dramatic reliefNo character graphmdasheverybody starts off from exactly where they end up The setting owned by merciless scavengers belongs to the dead in any case Why bother beyond a pointThere is of course the menacing villain Abhishek Banerjee Darth Vader of this immensely dark daft Vedaamdashsingularly lording over 150 villages in RajasthanVedaa Sharvari herself is the feisty heroine under attack in this blindingly rigged setup therefore under the care of the muted hero Thatrsquos John AbrahamTake him as John Wick what else What follows for two and half hoursrsquo flat are nonstop action blocks often in highspeedslomo shots with 100tonne John amassing death counts by the dozen a minutemdashblasting every piece of bone steel and concrete along the way with just about a minor wound on his wristJohnny Bravo is a stranger in town for reasons only known to him He couldrsquove been behind closed doors beating up any kinda baddies for audiencersquos catharsisWhy wrap this then in some sorta serious reality place it specifically in Barmer that appears more of a riddle thence There is literally no law in place never mind lawmakers to turn to besides courts press or police to look over eitherFurther does centering all of it on caste do disservice to the important issue itself If everything appears so unbelievablyimpossibly unrealexaggerated so must be the problem being highlighted hence Thatrsquos my fearBut I knowmdashthis is just a movie Must take it as that Trying my best as an audience And Advani no doubt has a strong sense of the visual The nightlight offroading sequences with the oneman platoon John giving the entire townrsquos cops and villains a chase seem stellarSo does that scene where the heroine is accosted by the local don He punches the crap out of her on a lane The actual violence in the scene swiftly shifts into a distant wide shot Itrsquos far more effective to feel the sickening painTo be fair you can individually appreciate a lot of the locations moments even performances To be fairer still there is no script Much less of a point therefore to go from one location moment performance into another reallyDonrsquot know about the others I simply switched off at some point Much earlier than I thought I would

Vedaa movie review: Daftly rigged Vedaa

Film: Vedaa
Director: Nikkhil Advani
Actors: John Abraham, Sharvari
Rating: 1.5/5

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Film: Vedaa Director: Nikkhil Advani Actors: John Abraham, Sharvari Rating: 1.5/5

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Film: Vedaa
Director: Nikkhil Advani
Actors: John Abraham, Sharvari
Rating: 1.5/5