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I'm not really going to structure my review for this, and instead use this as an impression dump. "Vettayan" was definitely the best Rajni movie since "Petta", but it's also the case that there just hasn't been a half decent Rajni movie since "Petta". "Vettayan" does its best to hold ground, but it still ends up being a rather tiresome watch. The main reason for this is just how long this movie went on for when it didn't really need to.
The first half was pretty good and while that might have been enough to keep your attention for a while, the second half fumbles the ball as soon as they reveal the direction of the movie. There's nothing here really that you haven't seen a million times before, but at the very least, there wasn't anything embarrassingly bad... except maybe the action, as has been the case in every Rajni movie, where the best action choreography you could do with a 70 year old man is to get him to swing his arms and flick his wig.
It's a passable movie for sure, and by Rajni standards, that's a good thing.
The first half was pretty good and while that might have been enough to keep your attention for a while, the second half fumbles the ball as soon as they reveal the direction of the movie. There's nothing here really that you haven't seen a million times before, but at the very least, there wasn't anything embarrassingly bad... except maybe the action, as has been the case in every Rajni movie, where the best action choreography you could do with a 70 year old man is to get him to swing his arms and flick his wig.
It's a passable movie for sure, and by Rajni standards, that's a good thing.
Has anyone ever told you that the caste system sucks? I mean, of course they have, but Nikkhil Advani's "Vedaa" is going to scream about it again anyways. You would think that a movie about the caste system is practically a layup, but for some reason, it treats the topic with a level of seriousness that's almost comical. "Vedaa" puts all its energy into fighting shadow boogeymen, where by the end of the movie, all you've watched is yet another commercial action flick with a caste discrimination setting, made to satiate either the fans or the ego itself of a particular actor.
All that being said, at least the movie tries to keep you entertained, and entertained not by the quality of the movie you're watching, but rather in a sense of being entertained by random car chases, gunshot action and fight sequences. It's Bollywood being Bollywood at the end of the day, and this is as Bollywood as it gets.
All that being said, at least the movie tries to keep you entertained, and entertained not by the quality of the movie you're watching, but rather in a sense of being entertained by random car chases, gunshot action and fight sequences. It's Bollywood being Bollywood at the end of the day, and this is as Bollywood as it gets.
For some reason, this 2022 movie got a Sri Lankan theatrical release this month in 2024. I have watched some amazing Pakistani movies before, but never a Pakistani Punjabi one, and so I was curious to see what this movie was about, especially given how highly rated it is on IMDB. Well, big mistake, because what the hell did I even watch?
A remake of a supposedly iconic Pakistani movie from the 70s, "The Legend of Maula Jatt" feels as if it was doused in a barrel of testosterone, and I don't mean that in a positive sense, but rather in a primitive and barbarically disgusting one. It was bombastic, loud and painfully over the top, and while one might argue that it's one of these "turn your brain off and enjoy the action" kinda movies, it doesn't help when the movie is so brainlessly unoriginal, it feels like you're being punished for simply having a brain. There was nothing attractive about this movie, and it just felt very unsettlingly barbaric, but as if it were something stylish or cool.
Couple this trash with a horrible theater-going experience where two separate Pakistani families brought along their kids who were running around, shouting and screaming throughout as their parents (and grandparents?) did nothing to stop them, or at times, shout and laugh along with them with no regards for the rest of the audience in the theater, you're left wondering if all this loudness is just a Pakistani Punjabi thing. I hope not, but it was a horrible enough experience that I'd never want to check out another one of these loud, obnoxiously insufferable Pakistani Punjabi movies.
A remake of a supposedly iconic Pakistani movie from the 70s, "The Legend of Maula Jatt" feels as if it was doused in a barrel of testosterone, and I don't mean that in a positive sense, but rather in a primitive and barbarically disgusting one. It was bombastic, loud and painfully over the top, and while one might argue that it's one of these "turn your brain off and enjoy the action" kinda movies, it doesn't help when the movie is so brainlessly unoriginal, it feels like you're being punished for simply having a brain. There was nothing attractive about this movie, and it just felt very unsettlingly barbaric, but as if it were something stylish or cool.
Couple this trash with a horrible theater-going experience where two separate Pakistani families brought along their kids who were running around, shouting and screaming throughout as their parents (and grandparents?) did nothing to stop them, or at times, shout and laugh along with them with no regards for the rest of the audience in the theater, you're left wondering if all this loudness is just a Pakistani Punjabi thing. I hope not, but it was a horrible enough experience that I'd never want to check out another one of these loud, obnoxiously insufferable Pakistani Punjabi movies.