<h2>Film: Vedaa&nbsp;<br />Director: Nikkhil Advani&nbsp;<br />Actors: John Abraham, Sharvari&nbsp;<br />Rating: 1.5/5</h2>
<p>While this may be true for many filmmakers, who aren&rsquo;t in equal parts writer-director, you observe the inconsistencies far more in the works of Nikkhil Advani.</p>
<p>Depending altogether on the script/material handed to him to direct&mdash;things can go totally south, or northwards.</p>
<p>Consider his brilliantly written series, Rocket Boys, on scientists Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai. Simply compare it to the shoddy show, Mumbai Diaries (2021), about 26/11.</p>
<p>While both are supposedly based on real-life events, the latter plays up fiction to such astral levels that it never does land.</p>
<p>The same can be said for Advani&rsquo;s perfectly fine, last theatrical release, Batla House (2019), on the 2008 encounter episode. Compare it to this debilitatingly deranged, wholly unhinged actioner, Vedaa.</p>
<p>It is so widely off the mark of anything to do with Haryana&rsquo;s Manoj-Babli honour killings; more so, UP&rsquo;s Meenakshi Kumari, khap-panchayat, Dalit atrocities and women&rsquo;s rape case; the events that the movie is supposedly inspired from.</p>
<p>It becomes impossible then to anchor the brain on to anything, in particular, let alone make sense of it! Also, there is simply no dramatic relief.</p>
<p>No character graph&mdash;everybody starts off from exactly where they end up. The setting, owned by merciless scavengers, belongs to the dead, in any case. Why bother, beyond a point.</p>
<p>There is, of course, the menacing villain (<strong><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/bollywood-news/article/stree-2-vedaa-actor-abhishek-banerjee-reveals-trained-japanese-martial-arts-goju-ryu-23371974" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Abhishek Banerjee</a></strong>), Darth Vader of this immensely dark, daft Vedaa&mdash;singularly lording over 150 villages in Rajasthan.</p>
<p>Vedaa (<strong><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/bollywood-news/article/sharvari-wagh-is-upbeat-with-response-to-her-horror-movie-munjya-23353575" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Sharvari</a></strong>) herself is the feisty heroine, under attack, in this blindingly rigged set-up, therefore under the care of the muted hero. That&rsquo;s John Abraham.</p>
<p>Take him as John Wick, what else? What follows for two and half hours&rsquo; flat are non-stop action blocks, often in high-speed/slo-mo shots, with 100-tonne John, amassing death counts by the dozen, a minute&mdash;blasting every piece of bone, steel and concrete, along the way, with just about a minor wound on his wrist!</p>
<p>Johnny Bravo is a stranger in town, for reasons only known to him. He could&rsquo;ve been behind closed doors, beating up any kinda baddies for audience&rsquo;s catharsis.</p>
<p>Why wrap this then in some sorta serious reality, place it specifically in Barmer, that appears more of a riddle thence? There is literally no law in place, never mind lawmakers to turn to, besides courts, press, or police, to look over either.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Further, does centering all of it on caste do disservice to the important issue itself? If everything appears so unbelievably/impossibly unreal/exaggerated, so must be the problem being highlighted, hence? That&rsquo;s my fear.</p>
<p>But I know&mdash;this is just a movie. Must take it as that. Trying my best, as an audience. And Advani, no doubt, has a strong sense of the visual. The night-light off-roading sequences, with the one-man platoon, John, giving the entire town&rsquo;s cops and villains a chase, seem stellar.</p>
<p>So does that scene, where the heroine is accosted by the local don. He punches the crap out of her on a lane. The actual violence in the scene swiftly shifts into a distant wide shot. It&rsquo;s far more effective to feel the sickening pain.</p>
<p>To be fair, you can individually appreciate a lot of the locations, moments, even performances. To be fairer still, there is no script. Much less of a point, therefore, to go from one location, moment, performance, into another, really.</p>
<p>Don&rsquo;t know about the others, I simply switched off, at some point. Much earlier than I thought I would.</p><p>
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Does centering all of it on caste do disservice to the important issue itself? If everything appears so unbelievably/impossibly unreal/exaggerated, so must be the problem being highlighted, hence? That’s my fear

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Film: Vedaa
Director: Nikkhil Advani
Actors: John Abraham, Sharvari
Rating: 1.5/5

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