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Varma

  • 2020
  • 1h 50m
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4.0/10
206
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Varma (2020)
A brilliant but short-tempered young surgeon goes down a self-destructive path of alcohol, drugs, and violence when the love of his life is forced to marry another man after her family opposes their union
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A brilliant but short-tempered young surgeon goes down a self-destructive path of alcohol, drugs, and violence when the love of his life is forced to marry another man after her family oppos... Read allA brilliant but short-tempered young surgeon goes down a self-destructive path of alcohol, drugs, and violence when the love of his life is forced to marry another man after her family opposes their unionA brilliant but short-tempered young surgeon goes down a self-destructive path of alcohol, drugs, and violence when the love of his life is forced to marry another man after her family opposes their union

  • Director
    • Bala
  • Writer
    • Raju Murugan
  • Stars
    • Sandra Amy
    • Jai Bala
    • Megha Chowdhury
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.0/10
    206
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Bala
    • Writer
      • Raju Murugan
    • Stars
      • Sandra Amy
      • Jai Bala
      • Megha Chowdhury
    • 6User reviews
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    Jai Bala
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    Megha Chowdhury
      Hasini Pavithra
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      Akash Premkumar
      Priyadarshini Rajkumar
      • Hero mother
      Easwari Rao
      Easwari Rao
      Dhruv Vikram
      Dhruv Vikram
      Raiza Wilson
      Raiza Wilson
      • Director
        • Bala
      • Writer
        • Raju Murugan
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      10naansirithaal

      Varma : An Commercial Entertainer!

      What You Are saying, Varma a commercial entertainer!!. Yes, This Movie Is Not Like Arjun Reddy And Other Remakes Of the film. Then What is the Film? Film Focuses On Entertaining Elements Like Comedy, Action, Drama Type Scenes, Commercial Songs and a Natural Screenplay and Neat Acting. Scenes In The Film Are Different Compared to Its Originals. Example: Eshwari Rao Character, Non-Presence Of Grand Mother. A Twisted Climax, Emotional And Intelligent Operation Scene, Extra Reason For The Hero"s Change In His Character (Before Climax). Even The Travelling Location Of hero (Before Climax) Is too Different And The Presence Of Good Song In That Scene Is Marvellous. Finally If You want a different Remake Of Arjun Reddy which want to entertain you Varma Is Best, Crisp (Because Of time) And It is worthy to watch.
      10siva-59894

      Happy ending-surprising

      Did not know it is director Bala's movie. Unless his other movies ,this movie has happy ending.
      4saru2020

      Bala's version is better than the original one for sure

      I think Bala's version is more apt one than the original released Tamil version although there were few limits exceeded in the characterisation which is what's expected in Bala's film and there were few scenes in the beginning that'd make you laugh severely if you like watching Bala's films. But, somehow this was more like a copy/pasted version and there weren't much of Bala's touches to it after first few mins.
      2vjnambu

      Soulless remake

      Arjun reddy was flawed but a detailed character study film. I felt that bala tried something contrasting and unconventional from the original which didn't go well with the producer to scrap the whole film. But, I had hopes with the bala cut, as the subject of arjun reddy is his forte since he had made previously sethu out of it. Dhruv vikram performed sincerely whatever he was told to do. Eshwari rao's character adds freshness to this remake. And those who were bothered about arjun reddy's length will get some relief in watching this as its only 110 minutes. That's the only positives. Watching varma is like watching arjun reddy in a capsule form. The runtime is brutally chopped which doesn't give any scenes depth or detailing and the emotions. The lead pair don't have any chemistry at all. The heroine's performance is very poor. Arjun reddy had so many memorable supporting characters especially the friend and grandma character. But in varma, there is not any good supporting character with the grandma character being removed and friend character turned into a passive one. Not only the director, but the actors were also in hurry to finish the film as all of their dialogue delivery were spoken fast. Action scenes in arjun reddy were realistic but varma's action scenes were like any typical commercial film. Worst scene in the film is the holi revenge sequence where in the original, the hero after beating the guy cries and begs to him not to tease her again. And in this we see the threatening the guy with attitude to not trouble her anymore. The redemption of the lead character through the death of an important character (grandma) doesn't make any impact in varma because the death of the character(father) here was nothing special here and they didn't have any bonding shown. And the climax, I felt illogical, because there was a time jump after varma and megha leave college and later its not shown whether they meet after that or not. In original, it was shown that arjun and preethi had sex before getting seperated. On the whole, bala either fails or doesn't bother to understand arjun reddy and remaked it without any care. It was wise from the producer to scrap it, otherwise it would have gone down as the worst remake in tamil.
      1sabirahmedkiller

      This is movie is a garbage

      Glad they didn't released this in theatres. Or else some innocent people would have gone to watch it. Worse movie.

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        • October 6, 2020 (India)
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