Virupaksha Movie Review: Sai Dharam Tej shines in this compelling supernatural horror flick

By Latha Srinivasan: The beginnings of this horror movie are in a small village known as Rudravanam in 1978 the place we see a pair carry out black magic and sacrifice a younger woman to appease the gods for no matter causes. The villagers cease the couple from killing their woman kids and burn them to loss of life for his or her heinous crimes. As the girl dies, she provides a curse that each one the folks within the village will die in 12 years. The villagers although let the couple’s son go and stay in an orphanage outdoors the village and banish him from there.

Reduce to 1991, we see Surya (Sai Dharam Tej), his buddy and his mom arrive at Rudravanam because the mom needs to donate her land for a great trigger for the village. They keep again for the pageant of the village deity Modamamba and that is when Surya meets Nandini (Samyuktha), sarpanch Harishchandra Prasad’s (Rajiv Kanakala) daughter. He falls in love along with her however quickly it’s time for him to return to town and that is when issues awry.

Simply because the pageant begins, one of many villagers falls on the toes of the Goddess within the sanctum sanctorum and dies. That is seen as a nasty omen and the villagers are prohibited from leaving Rudravanam for eight days to cleanse the village. However a sequence of different deaths quickly observe and it’s lastly Nandini who’s affected. Surya decides to research what’s going on. Who’s performing black magic within the village? Will Surya be capable to save Nandini?

Sai Dharam Tej has made a great comeback after his accident and he performs this function with a variety of ease. However it’s Samyuktha who actually has a meaty function right here and he or she has greater than delivered. The sound design and music by Ajaneesh Loknath needs to be recommended, in addition to the cinematography, since this film relies upon so much on these elements. This film is not only about some evil presence – it has been narrated effectively with a convincing story in order that the viewers turns into invested within the story. The director has made a great debut and, after all, Sukumar additionally deserves credit score for this.

The film is rated A as a result of violence and a few of the scenes depicted. Whereas the climax of the movie could enchantment to some and to not others, the movie focuses on superstitions which some folks within the nation nonetheless imagine in. It needs to be meals for thought. On the entire, the movie is an efficient entertainer.