In simple words, Vrusshabha, has a very good chance to be in the ‘Top Three Worst Films of The Year’, across film industries in India. Vrusshabha, strictly by going with the people associated with it, is a literal PAN India film. It was directed by a Kannada film director with a Malayalam star hero in the lead role along with multiple actors from Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi film industries. And, the producers of the film are three corporate companies based out of Mumbai & Dubai. When you have Mohanlal as a hero and so many notable names in the crew, the bare minimum the audience expects is a bearable movie. But, what we get to see is a mess of a film in the name of ‘past life residue’, AI-generated laughable visuals and terrible and uninterested performances from almost every actor.
Mangalavaaram is technically excellent. To start with, the cinematography is top-notch. It has gripping visuals, particularly in the sinister episodes. The background music deserves appreciation more than anything else in the movie. Ajaneesh Loknath’s BGM is the soul of Mangalavaaram. The screenplay is good. There were some boring sequences like the chaos at a local function and dragged sequences in the second half.
