Veerappan Movie Review : Movie is more agonizing than an AK47.

Genre : Biopic , Thriller.

Cast : Sandeep Bharadwaj , Usha Jadhav , Sachiin Joshi , Lisa Ray

Direction and Screenplay : Ram Gopal Varma.

"Great Villains make great movies" - Staton Rabin. Contritely, this was not in the case of  Veerappan. 

Veerappan (Sandeep) is a story of one of the India's most dangerous bandit who used to kill elephants for smuggling their tusks and policemen to frighten. Trained by forest guards themselves to kill an elephant, in his teenage , he killed a forest ranger for the first time when he prohibited Veerappan to kill an elephant due to strict forest laws , introduced then. Henceforth starts the journey of him becoming an abominable devil. Despite of being a benighted goon , Koose Muniswamy Veerappan was wise enough to take advantage of jurisdiction issue of Tamilnadu and Karnataka for escaping from either of police forces.
The film starts with some STF Jawans planning to kill or capture Veerappan under a mission called "Cocoon" led by Kannan(Sachiin) ; Which consists of many strategies to lure Veerappan out of his den(forest) varying from befriending the captured wife of Veerappan , Muthulakshmy (Usha) with Shreya (Lisa) and interrogating her about his whereabouts to bluffing an arrangement of meeting with LTT terrorist Prabhakar , who was Veerappan's role model. Being a docu-thriller movie , we know it's end of being Veerappan killed in October , 2004. But the fact that how plans were bumped off will make your eyes glued to screen.

Even though Sandeep and Usha did a fair redemption of their acting skills , Sachiin and Lisa failed miserably in doing so. Sachiin's dialogue delivery can literally anesthetize the viewer.

VFX 😭😭 Not a single blast or gunshot seemed real ! Even the blood stains were result of bad use of computer generated graphics. Gunshots even in Sholay were far better than this.

Background Music keep pounding ears like anything.

Direction and Screenplay were not the best contrivances of RGV. Obviously , I expected a lot more than this from the director of super hits like Sarkaar , Sarkaar Raj and Phoonk.

Dialogues like "Rakhshas ko maarne ke liye usse bada Rakshas banna padta hai" keep giving you chills every now and then eventhough their delivery was pretty cold.

Anyway it was quite of spunky move by RGV to make such a biopic , well-baked. 

It surely is a one-time watch.

Overall rating :

Watch Veerappan theatrical trailer.

Sarabjit Movie Review : There's not enough glue on the seat.

Genre : Biopic , Drama.
Cast : Randeep Hooda, Aishwarya Rai Bachhan, Richa Chaddha, Darshan Kumaar.
Directed by Omung Kumar.

How does it feel over dramatising an emotional biopic ? Well , you will get the answer while watching the movie.

Sarabjit is a story of a farmer , who , boozed up , crossed the Indo-Pak border(Punjab) and getting caught by Pakistan patrol leads him to step into a no-man's-land. Dalbir Kaur (Aishwarya) perserverantly tries to prove that her veera , Sarabjit (Randeep) , is innocent and framed as Ranjit Singh (accused of being a R.A.W agent and spying in Pakistan.) Dalbir's and Awwais Sheikh's (played as Sarabjit's lawyer by Darshan) efforts pay off and after more than two decades there's news of Sarabjit's release.But the doleful end is the noxious  attack by fellow prisoners leaving protagonist dead in Jinnah Hospital , Lahore.

Whole movie moves very cold and slow making viewer look at clock ten times an hour , however melodious songs may entertain you amidst.
First half of the movie does ham it up well by showing Sarabjit's pitiful condition in Lot Lakhpat jail , Lahore ; whereas latter one is a bit disappointing.

Although Aishwarya was abortive in her dialogue-delivery , Randeep was immaculate in his acting and get-up.Richa Chadda, eventhough under-utilised , did a marvelous job. Darshan was equitable to the little given screenspace.

Film was bollywoodised by some dialogues like , "Jao kehdo apne Taliban se jagah aur waqt batade , yeh sikhni waha pahoch jaayegi" or the one in trailer which almost gives you feel of Gadar. Punjabis were portrayed stereotypically as in every other Bollywood movie out there.(Gaddhi-Shaddhi , Daaru-Shaaru and what not). The Hindi-mixed-punjabi will make viewer feel gawky , it would have been a lot better if it was in Hindi with Punjabi accent to give it a relation aspect.
Direction and screenplay were not up to the par of Omung Kumar.

In end of the line , Sarabjit could be a lot more thrilling as shown in trailer than actually it was.

Overall rating :
Watch : Sarabjit official trailer.