Vikram Vedha - Hindi Action Movie
After a long wait, two top-tier stars, Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali
Khan, sink their teeth into a proper story that is presented to them.
Vikram
Vedha's Story: Vikram, an honest Lucknow police officer, is on a
mission to find and eliminate gangster Vedha. However, when Vedha
surrenders to the police and begins telling stories to Vikram, his
perception of good and evil changes.
Vikram Veda is directly
dependent on how much you've already enjoyed Vikram Veda let me explain
if like me you're a lover of the 2017 Tamil Vikram Veda then the Hindi
version becomes a largely laborious retread but if you're a Vikram with a
virgin you
might find pleasure in the puzzle-like plot and in rithik
Roshan who is in blazing flamboyant ferocious form the director Duo
pushkaran Gayatri are among the most exciting artistic voices in
Contemporary Indian Cinema early this year they created Amazon Prime
videos
First Tamil original series Surah The Vortex which was
terrific their first principle is moral ambiguity nothing in their
narratives Is What It Seems in Vikram Veda they marry this love for dark
turns and twists to mythology reimagining the Vikram betal tale as the
story of a cop and a criminal Vikram is ostensibly the good guy he's
this encounter specialist with a body count higher than many killers but
he sleeps well at night because he believes that he's cleaning up the
system the film begins with a continuous single shot which establishes
vikram's easy Authority and camaraderie with his team the action
sequence which follows also establishes the casualness with which he
kills.
Vikram looks at the world with this simple blunt edged
view which neatly separates people and actions into innocent or guilty
black or white as he tells a junior meanwhile Veda is the stuff of myth
he's a legendary gangster who rules to fame and power because he leapt
from a building and sliced a rival in hearts by the time Veda arrives on
screen with the camera following his imposing back we're already afraid
like pita Veda then proceeds to tell vikram's stories each one presents
a dharam and each one further shatters vikram's moral certitude all
that he holds dear his job his friendships within the forces marriage is
trained to Breaking Point
earlier this year when I interviewed
pushka Gayatri I asked him why they chose to remake their own work they
said that during the film in Hindi gave them a chance to pitch the
characters in a completely different way the setting is now Lucknow
instead of Chennai the Hindi dialogue written by B.A Fida and Manoj
montashir ranges from strangely formal with characters referring to
themselves as hum and using words like delis to this very specific up
accent with which Veda speaks he also throws in zingers like update
d-o-p-p-s the Note showcases the city with some striking images these
characters never feel really rooted in the soil in the way they did in
the original film they come off as bollywood's ideas or what Lucknow
locals might be like the trouble is that the original script which
pushkar and Gayatri wrote was so good that there is little room for
improvement.
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So,
the Hindi version is mostly a scene to scene the screenplay has the
same tones but the characters aren't as meaty in the Tamil version even
minor players were humanized with humor and flavor here they mostly just
come off as generic gangsters and cops SEF confidently steps into
madhavan's large shoes he starts off as slick but the slickness doesn't
dissipate enough even as the film progresses there's little sense that
Vikram is haunted by what is being revealed Madhavan nailed the
conflicting emotions of a man in the throes of an existential crisis
there was more emotion less posturing here this
delicate equation
gets tilted for a more brilliant safe rendition of a haunted cop go to
Sacred Game season 1. radhika after playing vikram's wife Priya has
little to do and the two aren't able to convincingly establish a sense
of deep bonding in marital comfort in the few scenes that they have.
Rohit
saraf as veda's younger brother and yogita bhyani as the girlfriend
don't have much depth either in comparison who played the same character
called Chandra in the Tamil version had so much personality so red
color who played bully the younger brother who inadvertently puts the
plot into motion Holi and chandra's relationship was absolutely electric
the electric presence in this film is Veda delivered a master class in
how to combine tragic Majesty with swag he made Vedas murders rage and
destruction seem effortless and inevitable like the demon he had this
Aura of timelessness as though he had been there and would be there
murdering and suffering and securing morality for all eternity rithik
gives a more unhinged intensity with unkempt hair and a manic air he's
more strained but he's also very exciting it's always nice to see a
superstar let go of vanity and appear determinedly nasty
He says
with such delicious Mischief that it's hard to resist fall into the Trap
of propping up the stardom of their Leading Men while the Tamil version
also had ample slow motion shots and a deliberately constructed cool
caution here it's much more in your face especially in the climax in
which guns and bulle.
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