Vedam – Movie Review

This is not a commercial flick. Its more of an experimental class that are rare in telugu film industry. It does not surprise me that it came from the director of Gamyam, another good movie.

Story:
Do not get me wrong. It is definitely not first of its kind. Five different stories hanging linked to a single climax. Hollywood has them, bollywood has them and I am sure other “Regionalwoods” have them. But it is relatively new to Tollywood. Trust me it is not easy to handle such subjects as audience would be lost in so many different threads. So the ambitious project was not very much perfect but it is decently made script.

Narration:
Krish tired his best and surely bettered himself in the art but not quite perfect. As I mentioned earlier it is not easy. There are some parts in movie where either audience get bored or lost. That’s one of the reasons why it cant become box office record getter movie sorts. Other reason being it does not stick to tired and tested 5 songs, 5 fights and/or 2 heroin and one hero concept. But I am glad that telugu movies are coming up with multistarrer movies with Novel subjects. Krish may be accused of trying to handle too many problems at on go, but to be honest he just tried to portray all the problems and did not ambitiously try to offer solutions. (Like Posani does in his movies by offer bizarre solutions to long impending problems thankfully)

Performances:
Allu Arjun:
He is a smart guy. I started realizing it as I just made a recap of his films. He is doing commercial formula based films, message oriented ones and now some novel multi-starrer. I am guessing over a period of time, he would end up having some nice memoirs than some of his peers. He enacted role of cable raju. He has done decent action clubbed with subtle comedy and carried the film very well. If you have watched climax scenes of movie named Happy then you would instantly recognize that he has improved a lot in enacting emotions. Way to go Arjun!

Anuskha:
She is beautiful and did justice to the role. I wont discuss whole lot about her character but she depicts some problems of sex workers.

Manchu Manoj:
There is no debate about this guy that he is any day better than his brother. But this movie surely brought some of his best action. His portrayal as rock star was near perfect, though at times his emotions betrayed him.

Manoj Bajpai:
We have seen his talent in movie Satya itself and he has enacted role of a muslim who gets bad outing in India and wants to leave country. He did justice to his role and very well supported by the lady who enacted his wife.

Nagayya:
Some true taste what poverty in India is like is depicted in character of Nagayya. I could see some missing lipsync at times but expressions were extraordinary. The scenes where he tries to protect his money from thief and the scene where he celebrates recovered lost cash touch heart of even rocks. He will be my pick for best supporting actor in the movie. His daughterinlaw character also is well enacted of a poor mother who sells kidney for son’s education.

Music:
Music from Keeravani is good. I did not listen to any songs before going for the movie. I fell flat with fist song “Now or Never”. I immediately recognized it is written by Sirivennela SeethaRama Sastry. All songs made sense lyrically.

Overall:
It is a movie that needs to be watched once at least.