Vangaveeti (2016)

Vangaveeti: Directed by Ram Gopal Varma. With Ram Gopal Varma, Naina Ganguly, Ambati Srinivas, Vamsee Chaganti. The life story of slain legislator Vangaveeti Mohan Ranga Rao who was assassinated during the NT Rama Rao regime in 1989.

“Vangaveeti is one the most anticipated movies of this year. This is not a new zone for RGV where he made movies based on real life events and characters. But what makes Vangaveeti very controversial is that it deals with caste based politics that happened during the 70u0026#39;s and 80u0026#39;s in Vijayawada. Caste is a big deal in Andhra pradesh and ironically a taboo topic for any discussion. A conflict between two people belonging to two different castes led to a civil war between those two communities.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Truth can never be concluded, everybody has their versionu0026quot;. This basically applies to any event that happens in real life and is the same in the case of caste based politics that happened in Vijayawada. I was excited to see RGVu0026#39;s version of this story as he claimed he knows more than anybody else. It is true that he did so much ground work, met some of the real people involved in the crime saga and got inputs from them. Everybody knows that Vangaveeti Ranga was killed by Devineni Nehru and his group but what actually led to those events is where people had differences.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGoing into the movie i had my version of the story which i developed based on my research and to an extent RGVu0026#39;s version went on the same lines as mine but there were certain things that took me by surprise in his version. Some of them are fictionalized and are used strictly for the dramatization reason and some of them were real which i missed. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie is enjoyable all along the way. The screenplay was racy except for a couple of unnecessary songs, the direction was top notch with RGV mark intensity, Camera work was fabulous. Music was amazing. I loved some of the songs and background tracks. Special mention about the cast. Sandeep who played both Vangaveeti Radha u0026amp; Ranga characters gave a performance of a life time. It is certainly not easy to portray a real life character and you have no footage of him. Sandeep managed to make both the characters a cake walk and you will not believe that those two characters were performed by the same actor. Sritej who played Nehru is apt. Vamsee as Murali and Kautilya as Gandhi did a great job.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eVangaveeti is not for everyone. People who are aware of the real life events will find it interesting as you have your version and then there is RGVu0026#39;s and for people who arenu0026#39;t aware of what the fuzz is all about, you can enjoy this film as another RGV violent gang war film.”