In films from southern India, especially Tamil and Telugu industry, the film revolves around the lead actor. So whenever a film is announced without a title, the film is generally referred by the name of the lead actor and the forthcoming number of his (as per his filmography). Actors pay an important attention to milestone films likes their 25th or 50th and so on.
V is Nani’s XXV film. Nani is an actor who goes by the moniker Natural Star, though I do not know what that means. Nani is an actor who has built his image as the boy next door so far. I was surprised to see him going on full on action mode, for this Ugadi release before the pandemic forced the makers to release this straight on Amazon Prime.
Telugu films are generally a product of star driven markets, so actors must experiment in small measures without going overboard or risk alienating their fan base. Even when they play characters with grey shades it is a tightrope walk be it Mahesh Babu in Pokiri or NTR Jr in Temper incidentally both are helmed by the same director (Puri Jagannadh) and we get a redemption factor or solid reasoning for their deeds.
V begins with a communal riots scene in Hyderabad, wherein super cop Adithya (Sudheer Babu) comes and rescues the victims from the rioters in true blue fashion with his shirt getting ripped away to show off his physique.
Things turn murkier for Adithya when an unknown caller challenges him to stop the murders he is going to commit. Thus, begins the cat and mouse game between the stwo. For those who are accustomed to watching Telugu film, we know there will be a Shankar Curse (Read flashback sequence) which will reveal why the Hero is on a killing spree. Now this template is known to most Telugu audience, that is why narration matters, but it totally fails.
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