There is a time when everyone is dominated by cinema. No matter how much stardom a hero has, he is zero before cinema. Adding as an exception to this, a person or can be called as a revolutionary who has been growing beyond his cinema. He is gigantic and more popular than his movies and he is none other than RGV aka Ram Gopal Varma. He started his Telugu film career with path breaking classic Shiva, and said to be saying goodbye to Telugu cinema with his latest biopic Vangaveeti. Vangaveeti is his take and his story based on Vangaveeti Ranga and his murder. He is creating a lot of noise with this movie and promos had already created the impact of vintage RGV. Let’s see how it works on us.

Story

Venkata Ratnam is a biggest rowdy in Vijayawada who deals and settles everything in his place and maintains groups under him. He is feared by all and respected out of that. Bus stand Radha (Sandeep) is a small rowdy in his area who is joined in Venkata Ratnam gang and he rises so fast in that gang and is bad mouthed by Venkata Ratnam’s personal goons. Venkata Ratnam calls Radha and insults him which in turn makes Radha and his gang murder Venkata Ratnam brutally. It marks the rise of Radha as a force in Vijayawada which makes some political parties in secure and a party kills him with perfect plan which makes Vangaveeti Ranga, brother of Radha, the only successor of Radha. How he rise and how he is assassinated forms the rest of the story.

Cast and Performance

Sandeep Kumar aka Sandy is terrific as Vangaveeti Radha and Vangaveeti Ranga. He is so perfect in their body languages and his performance is laudable. He is the best choice for the roles and cannot imagine another actor performing the roles he performed. Shritej as Devineni Nehru is superb. Vamsi as Devineni Murali is perfect. Naina Ganguly as Ratna Kumari is good. Vamsi Nekkanti is nice. All other unknown actors who performed the roles of Venkataratnam and others are superb and are well casted.

Writing Department

Vangaveeti is a realistic fictional story written based on true incidents and rowdyism in Vijayawada. Screenplay is gripping mostly and dialogues are aptly and well written.

Technical Departments

Songs composed by Ravi Shankar are more of situational and works so well while watching on screen. His background score is riveting and complement the visuals. Cinematography by Rahul Srivatsav is fantastic and movie is composed of vintage RGV shots which work and sync well with the narrative style of RGV. Editing is good and could have better cuts. Action sequences are shot realistic. Production values are apt and rich.

Highlights

• Actors Performance
• Gripping Screenplay
• RGV Direction

Minus

• Songs
• Violence and Bloodshed

Verdict

Vangaveeti is based on the rowdyism of Vijayawada and rowdies living in Vijayawada at that time. This film begins with the voice over of Ram Gopal Varma which introduces the character Chalasani Venkata Ratnam and his power in Vijayawada. This half runs with gripping screenplay which engages audience to the core having songs which are not so good to hear. Whenever a new character enter the scene, RGV arrives with his voice to introduce him. Murders portrayed in this half are shown in a realistic way giving a lot of space for reactions. Interval comes at place where Devineni Gandhi is killed by Vangaveeti gang brutally which is well shot and engaging. Second half is as engaging as first half and is far more better half of the movie. Ram Gopal Varma’s voice over makes us clarified throughout the movie and is superb. Ram Gopal Varma once again proved that no one can match or come near to his vision while making biopics or real incidents. To sum up, Vangaveeti is a gripping movie from the mastermind RGV.

Controversial genius Ram Gopal Varma looks to be not stepping back regarding his new film ‘Vangaveeti’ despite several alleged threats.

After organizing a grand audio release function in Vijayawada, now Varma is planning to hold a massive pre-release function in Hyderabad. Guess who is attending this event as chief guests? Its Akkineni Nagarjuna and Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan.

Varma himself has divulged this info and also announced the date, 20th December, two days ahead of the film’s release date, 23rd Dec.

It has to be seen if Varma can really succeed in roping Big B and Nag to attend this event, which has alleged threats from members belonging to a particular community. Varma has already met the Vangaveeti family members and later he admitted that he was cautioned against having controversial content in the film.

Controversial filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has finally conceded to the demands of those who were complaining against the ‘Vangaveeti’ biopic even since the project was announced.

Although Varma had allegedly received several threats, he didn’t deter and finished the shooting. The ‘Kamma Kapu’ song from the movie, which was already released, however turned controversial with the lyrics looking potentially demeaning.

After a few members of those respective castes lodged a petition against the film I the High Court, Varma and film’s producer Dasari Kiran Kumar have released a joint statement saying they had decided to remove the ‘Kamma Kapu’ song. After the voluntary decision of the makers ahead of the hearing, the High Court on Friday wrote off the case.

The film’s audio launch event is scheduled to be held in Vijayawada on 3rd December. The film’s theatrical release date will be announced soon.

The theatrical trailer of ‘Vangaveeti,’ one of the most controversial movies in the recent times, has been unveiled this evening by film’s director Ram Gopal Varma.

As expected, the trailer is intriguing and utterly violent. Varma’s voice in the background song makes things look highly engrossing. Controversial words like ‘Kamma,’ ‘Kapu’ etc. were also used in the lyrics but they were said to be not in context with the castes.

Set in the rowdyism and political backdrop of Vijayawada, ‘Vangaveeti’ is produced by Dasari Kiran Kumar under Ramaduta Creations banner. Despite several alleged threats against the making of this film, Varma went on to shoot it and release the trailer on the eve of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. Interestingly, Varma calls the trailer the most peaceful one.

Watch the Vangaveeti trailer here:

Controversial filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma’s latest controversial film ‘Vangaveeti’ is said to be in the last schedule of shooting.

The project has attracted controversies ever since it was announced. Varma created a storm in the Telugu states by visiting Vijayawada to gather information about the real-life story of the two powerful families or communities in the city to portray it on the silver screen. In spite of the threats, Varma went ahead to cast and introduce the characters via Twitter.

After that, Varma shifted his base to Mumbai and got busy with the Hindi version of ‘Killing Veerappan’, leading people to believe that ‘Vangaveeti’ was shelved. But, latest reports suggest that the last schedule is being filmed, and shoot will be wrapped up soon.

‘Vangaveeti’is expected to create a huge storm when it sets out for release especially in the Vijayawada city in residual AP.

Controversial filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma is gearing up to start the shooting of ‘Vangaveeti’ biopic despite several threats from a section of Vijayawada batch.

After finalizing actors to play Vangaveeti and his wife Ratna Kumari, Varma has now selected an actor to play the role of Devineni Murali. Varma posted the pic and everyone was amazed after he revealed who that actor was.

He is none other than ‘Happy Days’ Vamsi. Audience might still remember the character of Vamsi, who gets rift with friends after falling into the trap of his girlfriend. After acting in two to three films after ‘Happy Days’, Vamsi went missing from the radar.

RGV is bringing him back with ‘Vangaveeti’ biopic. Varma gave the compete credit to Vamsi for his transformation to look like Devineni Murali.

We must admit that Varma still has his genius spark.