VR (Vikrant Rona)

Poor remake of Rangitaranga movie on a high scale. Anup Bhandari, if possible come out from Kamarottu village & Bhrammarakshasa next time.

Excellent Cinematography!!

One time watch movie . Well tried attempt by the writer dorector and the cast and crew.... Story and characters needed more than what is shown... good luck but any other even slightly better movie has a fair chance of kicking this movie off the screens..on to the OTT.

Booked 1st day 1st show ticket, had expectations of thriller adventure, but Bang Bang Bang the devil just sang Dead man's Anthem... ultimate plot twists...Its a mixture of everything - adventure, fights, horror, action and most importantly BGM, direction and cinematography...they just stand top... Honestly This film cannot be compared with KGF chapters and RRR...it entirely different in terms of story and making...It has its own appealing content...In this film you won't see any single character boost.... there are multiple character boosts....1st half story pick up with amazing interval...2nf half just play's with your mind.... amazing and proud of this film...As said expect the unexpected 🔥

All my stars are for the 2nd half & climax.

The 1st half drags with unnecessary songs, heroism & some useless character /actors J . Fernandes being one of them.

Imagine a shorter 1hr 50 mins with a tight script would have made a gem.

Rangitaranga was better not the best due the same reasons.

The 2nd half justifies the 1st even though many unnecessary elements could have been avoided.

Acting is good, photography , art direction looks decent but action seems too over the top. 3D release is just a gimmick.

Vikrant Rona could have been a great thriller. But it falls quite short. Set design, art direction, cinematography, and of course, Sudeep's acting are all pretty brilliant. The main core of the story is also not bad. Where it fails is in the execution.

We get to revisit Kamarottu again. You will be pumped up at the beginning. But then it devolves pretty quickly. The climax is much better than the rest of the movie though.

The things that went wrong with the movie are-

1) Romance: This kills the movie singlehandedly. It's slow, uninteresting, too long, bores the heck out of you by killing the main story's momentum a thousand times.

2) Songs: They are ok-ish, but every one of them feels out of place and unnecessary.

3) The movie's characters and their mannerisms are hyper-urban and their conversations use too much of fine English/Hindi for a story set in the middle of a place like Kamarottu. I hated this in Rangitharanga and hated it even more in VR. (Sudeep/Anup can learn a thing or two on this aspect by watching movies of Rakshith/Rishabh/Raj Shetty.)

4) One of the climax's big reveals can be seen right away in the beginning. The director's attempts to hide it becomes annoyingly way too obvious.

5) The small things that further degrade the movie are the cheap jump scares, terrible jokes, cliched horror-movie scenes, forgettable dialogues, poor acting by Nirup Bhandari, and too much of melodrama.

Despite all these negatives, the movie has some great moments, and they show the potential of the director. I hope he does a better job in his future ventures.