Waltair Veerayya Review & Ratings | Hit or Flop?

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Waltair Veerayya Review: Undisputed Megastar of Telugu film industry Chiranjeevi who had many successful movies in Telugu that were released during Sankranthi, has come up with ‘Waltair Veerayya’ once again for this Sankranthi. After the news leaked about Mass Maharaja Raviteja playing an important role in the movie, expectations on this movie went sky high and the first look of Chiranjeevi from the movie raised the bars few more. Carrying many expctations, this movie has finally released in theatres competing with Nandamuri Balakrishna’s ‘Veera Simha Reddy’.

Waltair Veerayya Review

Let us get into the detailed review of this movie to know, if both Megastar Chiranjeevi and Mass Maharaja Raviteja are able to entertain the audience with their massy performances in theatres.

Story

Veerayya (Chiranjeevi), a fisherman from Jalaripeta, is often asked to help out of troubles by everyone. Even though he has been in trouble with the law before, the coast guards ask him for help. He agrees to help a police officer with a grudge. Solomon (Bobby Simha) is the target. The rest of the story is about what Veerayya did to help the policeman get his revenge.

Cast & Crew

Waltair Veerayya movie stars Megastar Chiranjeevi in the leading role, while Shruti Haasan is playing the female lead. Other cast of the movie include Raviteja, Catherine Tresa, Bobby Simha, Rajendra Prasad, Vennela Kishore, John Vijay, Sreenivas Reddy, Shakalaka Shankar, Saptagiri, who will be seen playing other prominent roles in the movie.

Waltair Veerayya is written & directed by KS Ravindra (Bobby Kolli) and produced by Naveen Yerneni & Ravi Shankar Yalamanchili on Mythri Movie Makers production banner. Music of this movie is composed by Devi Sri Prasad and cinematography is handled by Arthur A Wilson. Editing of this movie is taken care by Niranjan Devaramane.

Movie Name Waltair Veerayya
Director KS Ravindra (Bobby Kolli)
Music Director Devi Sri Prasad
Producer Naveen Yerneni & Ravi Shankar Yalamanchili
Genre Action, Drama
Cast Chiranjeevi, Ravi Teja, Shruti Haasan, Catherine Tresa, Bobby Simha
Cinematography  Arthur A Wilson

Verdict

Director Bobby has promoted this movie as one of the best commercial movies made in the career of Megastar Chiranjeevi and he have directed the movie as a big fan of Megastar. He also promised Megastar fans that he will definitely present the vintage Megastar on screen and looks like Bobby had delivered, what he promised to some extent with Waltair Veerayya.

Waltair Veerayya is a movie that is made completely to celebrate the mass euphoria of Megastar Chiranjeevi on screen, but movie should have some interesting story and scenes that could elevate the greatness of actor, rather being a copy cat of his old movies. Waltair Veerayya has many references from Chiranjeevi’s old movies, which are bearable to some extent but definitely feels bore after few scenes. Waltair Veerayya has very weak story that could hardly engage the audience with very weakly written scenes. Only relief in the movie being the scenes that has Raviteja and Chiranjeevi together.

While it comes to acting performances, Megastar Chiranjeevi is a brilliant actor and there is no doubt about it, but from last few movies, he looked like trying to imitate himself on screen from his old movies. Megastar’s graceful dance moves are always a treat to watch on screen. Raviteja character is not well written, but he managed to pull off the character with ease. Shruti Haasan is okay in limited scenes. Catherine Tresa, Bobby Simha and all other actors did their part well.

Technically Waltair Veerayya movie looks good. Cinematography by Arthur A Wilson is one of the major highlights from the movie. Though few scenes look with over saturated colors, visuals in the movie look very colorful. Songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad are forgettable and his background score is impact less. Dance choreography another highlight in the movie, that will make the fans cheer during the songs. VFX could have taken more care of. Production values are high.

Directer KS Ravindra (Bobby Kolli) has delivered commercial entertainers in the past and followed the same strategy in this movie, that didn’t workout due to very weak script and characters in the movie.

Overall, Waltair Veerayya movie is strictly made for fans and we need to wait for the response for the movie from other section of audience to confirm if the movie will be a Sankranthi hit.

Plus Points:

  • Dance Choreography
  • Few scenes involving Raviteja and Chiranjeevi

Minus Points:

  • Music and background score
  • Story
  • Screenplay

Rating: 2.5/5

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