Review: 'Veerabahu' is a mass apart

Film: Veerabahu (Kannada)
Director: S Mahendar
Cast: Vijay, Nidhi Subbaiah, Rangayana Raghu

There’s always something one can expect from a film that stars Vijay films. Good fights, loads of melodrama and some great chemistry between Rangayana Raghu and Vijay. The heroines usually fill in as glam dolls who sizzle, mostly in the songs.

While Veerabahu is just that, there’s is a little more — director S Mahendar, who is known for having the strongest of female characters in his films, has given Nidhi Subbaiah a role that actually tests her competence as a performer.

Rangayana Raghu plays a grave digger, who chances upon an abandoned infant. The boy is named Veerabahu, after the lord who looks upon the graveyards. Veerabahu is naive. His childhood playmate Devi, an Iyengar, is his soulmate. Devi’s sent away from the evil boy. But their love story blossoms, in typical Vijay style, with elements of Mahendar’s narrative seeping in.

Vijay gets to do what he does best as this is a role that’s been tailormade, keeping in mind his raw, action hero image. You may as well take it for granted that there’s not going to be a ‘different’ kind of role for this actor. Quite like — different situation, same difference. Rangayana Raghu does his usual act, as do Avinash and Dharma who play the usual tough cops. Raju Talikote plays a man from Hubbali who offers good repartees. Nidhi has done a good job. Watch this film, it entertains in true mass style.