Veera Simha Reddy

Director Gopichandh Malineni's Veera Simha Reddy is as formulaic as it can get. Veera Simha Reddy is a film that reeks of clichéd ideas. While most of them work, the lack of depth in the story made it an average affair.

Gopichand Malineni's Veera Simha Reddy is purely for Balakrishna's fans alone. There's no two ways about it. Otherwise there's only so much you can take of all the flying bodies, loud punch dialogues that are specifically written to elicit cheers and scene after scene that exists solely to showcase the titular character as nothing less than god.

This Nandamuri Balakrishna starrer has no soul. The troubling part of Veera Simha Reddy, by that token most of Balakrishna's movies, is that it argues it's okay to kill to solve a problem.

It's not the story or the performances that really keep one invested in the film. It's the pure madness the action sequences bring to the big screen viewing experience along with SS Thaman's electric background score that makes Veera Simha Reddy likable to a large extent. If not for Balakrishna's energetic screen presence, which makes the most mundane scenes fun to watch, this would've been a tiresome watch.

Veera Simha Reddy is anything but an engaging package. It has a tepid storyline that works against such 'Balayya moments' and the writing is all over the place. In Veera Simha Reddy, we have a loosely knit and archaic narrative told through a template screenplay.