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Veerappan

  • 2016
  • 2h 5m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
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Veerappan (2016)
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Officer Kannan leads a group of police officers to track down the bandit, Veerappan.Officer Kannan leads a group of police officers to track down the bandit, Veerappan.Officer Kannan leads a group of police officers to track down the bandit, Veerappan.

  • Director
    • Ram Gopal Varma
  • Writers
    • Jai Priyadarshi
    • R.D. Tailang
  • Stars
    • Sachiin Joshi
    • Sandeep Bharadwaj
    • Usha Jadhav
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
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    • Director
      • Ram Gopal Varma
    • Writers
      • Jai Priyadarshi
      • R.D. Tailang
    • Stars
      • Sachiin Joshi
      • Sandeep Bharadwaj
      • Usha Jadhav
    • 13User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Sachiin Joshi
    Sachiin Joshi
    • Operation Cocoon officer
    Sandeep Bharadwaj
    • Veerappan
    Usha Jadhav
    Usha Jadhav
    • Muthulakshmi
    Nissar Khan
    Nissar Khan
    • Police Chief Kumar
    Uday Atroliya
    • Forest Inspector
    Chetanya Adib
    • Shashi
    Mukesh Agrohari
    Mukesh Agrohari
    • Naxalite
    Raj Singh Arora
    Raj Singh Arora
    • Gopal
    Akash Chawariya
    • Bhola
    Shekhar Kant Jha
    • Press reporter Gopalan
    Zareen Khan
    Zareen Khan
    • Dancer
    • (as Zarine Khan)
    Kamal D. Khatak
    • Veerappan's gang member
    Nalneesh Neel
    Nalneesh Neel
    • Betray
    Jasmin Oza
    • Choreogpher
    • (credit only)
    Navin Prabhakar
    Navin Prabhakar
    • Rajan
    Lisa Ray
    Lisa Ray
    • Shreya
    Sunit Razdan
    • Bhupi
    Kumar Saurabh
    Kumar Saurabh
    • Ganga man
    • Director
      • Ram Gopal Varma
    • Writers
      • Jai Priyadarshi
      • R.D. Tailang
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    4lediscipledessocrates

    Poor Acting Ruins the Show

    It cannot be said that Veerappan is a very entertaining movie. Although, one feels there was enough material to make it so. Revolving around the eponymous forest brigand , the story line is strange since it is not very impactful. Presumably it would be hard for the audience to decide how to perceive the film. There is a shabby effort to add suspense and develop plots . This seems shoddy since everyone knows the main business of the movie.

    The background score is very ordinary and raucous , doesn't go well with the setting.

    However, what spoils the show is the acting . Lisa Ray's acting is very poor . Partly due to her own limited skills as an actress , partly due to the director's misjudgment and substandard character development. Sandeep Bhardwaj does a little better , however the most genuine aspect of his character are the moustaches.

    The cast from Crime Patrol (SET) does a fairly good job invoking their vast experience in police drama genre. The rest of the cast either underacts or overacts. Without exception.

    All said and done , had the actors been given better developed characters to play and more interesting dialogue even they could have done better. That not being the case the movie falls way below par. That is all there is to it, I am afraid.
    6sudhakaranakhilan

    Should have to elaborate a little bit

    There needs no introduction while talking about the most notorious person ever seen by India, Veerappan, he had vanished or killed from here around 17 years back. Lots of articles, documentaries, and even films come out publicly depicting the biography of Veerappan. There also comes a book written by the Chief of Special Task Force, K Vijayakumar who was the mastermind behind the killing of Veerappan named Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand. Here we are talking about a film, which is also about the last moments of Veerappan, that directed by the veteran Ram Gopal Varma. Like Veerappan, the name Ram Gopal Varma is so famous not in the way how Veerappan was known and he was a genius in Film Industry. He made wonderful movies and created a space in the mind of film lovers. Veerappan is his 2016 product and this film is not at all flavored with the actual Ram Gopal Varma essence. This is an 'okay' film that has ups and downs. The movie is about the movement of the police to capture Veerappan. Poor Script is the main thing I want to point here because there is a rush in the making while the incidents are going on. The director has that kind of a mind to restrict the film within 2 hours, and I feel so. The misplaced use of background scores feels inappropriate and the performance from some of the actors feels awkward. Especially the character of Shreya which was done by Lisa Ray is not fit in that role. The director or even the writers can't add anything freshness to the story because we all know the story very well. The task for them is to engage us the but unfortunately, they are failed to do so. There is also a docu-fiction named Killing Veerappan and that was also directed by Ram Gopal Varma which is not at all like Veerappan, the film. Anyway, the film is so short and only focused on the ending of Veerappan's killing.
    1vyaas-radhakrishnan

    Wrong depiction, false facts

    Lets leave how the movie has been taken or how the screenplay is though its awful. Just because the director has a background of gangster movies he cannot manipulate the story of a real person who actually lived.

    Many facts in the film are cooked up just to show veerappan as a horrifying villain. I have grown up reading news about veerappan and knowing many facts about his life, for me this film is nothing but a absolute nonsense.

    Its not just the director who knew about veerappan everyone who is above 20 years knew about him just the same way the director has known. Just the first 5 mins of the movie made me understand how horribly the movie has been made and the first scene of veerappan mutilating a police by chopping off his limbs, man seriously how come you invented some crap like this. Before taking a movie about a person at least try to know some facts about him, don't just bring your imagination on the screen.
    1Nnk26991

    Very Bad !

    What has happened to RGV he has always been one of my favorite directors and what sort of movies does he make these days , the movie was so bad that I could barely watch it somehow I managed to finish it . Bad bad bad avoid it
    7tarunchanderboora

    If you didn't watch Original Kannada version, You will like it a lot

    Even though some changes were made from Original Kannada version, the movie is very engaging. If you did not watch the Original Kannada version, you will enjoy a lot. Lot of Voilence in the movie

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      The film did not have a theatrical release in British Columbia, Canada.
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    • Release date
      • October 15, 2017 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Official sites
      • Stream Veerappan officially on Hotstar Singapore
      • Watch Veerappan on Disney+ Hotstar
    • Language
      • Hindi
    • Also known as
      • Veerappan: None Like Him Ever Existed
    • Production company
      • Viiking Media & Entertainment
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      • $1,234,745
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 5m(125 min)
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