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.