V
director: Indraganti Mohana Krishna
To emit: Nani, Sudheer Babu, Nivetha Thomas and Aditi Rao Hydari
V is undoubtedly Indraganti Mohana Krishna’s most ambitious film. Since the project was announced, the stakes were high, especially since it was the third collaboration between Indraganti and Nani, a couple who had clicked in the past with two entertaining films, Ashta Chamma and Gentleman. Unfortunately, things are not going so well for the couple this time.
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Their latest collaboration is a colossal mess and almost nothing works in their favor. Both Nani and Indraganti seem to have stepped out of their comfort zone with V, which indeed deserves congratulations, but they struggle to make an impact.
V opens with a riot and we are introduced to ACP Adithya (Sudheer Babu). He quickly takes action to control the situation. What we get is a scene straight out of a Salman Khan movie. We see Adithya shirtless and flaunting her ripped body. When this scene ends, the credits roll and we learn more about what kind of man Adithya is. He’s the kind of cop you don’t want to mess with. But that only makes things exciting for Vishnu (Nani). Vishnu, a psychopathic killer with a dark past, embarks on a murder spree, leaving clues that challenge Adithya to try to stop him. Soon, we are sucked into a cops vs. serial killer thriller that’s all style but not substance.
V needed better wording. Even the twists are so predictable that you wish they came with at least some element of surprise. Instead, a lot of emphasis has been put on making the film look unnecessarily fancy. We know it’s a big budget movie and it might very well be Indraganti’s most expensive movie, but the need to make it look great just for the sake of having it doesn’t make sense. For example, murders are made to look gruesome because this is a story about a serial killer, but the rest fail and do not justify violence.
V turns out to be Nani’s 25th movie and as much as you want to praise him for not playing safe and taking something so unconventional, you wish he had stuck to his strengths and did something lighthearted. Nani desperately tries to make his character look dark, but can’t sell it. His introduction scene is the ruthless murder of a police officer. But a couple of scenes later, we see him trying to be funny with a passenger on a bus. Nani is serious, but you feel like he’s not comfortable playing someone so sinister with black humor. Sudheer Babu hardly has any impact in a role that had more scenes than Nani. Both Nivetha Thomas and Aditi Rao Hydari, two promising talents that Indraganti has used effectively in the past, are wasted on purposeless roles.
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V is a major failure of Indraganti, whose intention to go big fails gloriously. For Nani, who had bet a lot on this film, it will be a great disappointment. If only Nani had been inspired by the narration of his latest production, HIT, a gripping investigative thriller, V could have been a much better film.
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