When the opening credits roll in Adhik Ravichandran's Bagheera, we catch glimpses of YouTube videos where young men complain about their ex-girlfriends and failed relationships. This gives us a sense of how backward-looking the rest of the movie will be. The ill-written movie Bagheera, which was meant to come out a few years ago, is the ideal illustration of how a psychological thriller should never be handled.

The movie opens with a scenario where a girl is brutally murdered, as with every other crime thriller. We see a number of these murders taking place in the city a few minutes into the movie. A giant teddy bear doll that injects toxins into the bodies of the targeted girls kills them as a gift. Later, we come to understand that Bagheera (Prabhudeva), a psychopath who is on a murderous rampage, is responsible for all of this. Young people can post images of their girlfriends who are involved in many partnerships using an app with the same name, and Bagheera will save them.

For those guys who are emotionally distressed after being betrayed by women, Bagheera acts as a sort of vengeful angel. When ramya (Amyra Dastur), a psychology student, crosses his path, things take an unexpected turn. She is discovered with him by herself in a luxury villa in Sri Lanka. Can ramya be able to protect herself from this psychopath or will she become his victim?

We often feel that movies like Bagheera shouldn't have been produced at all after watching them. The first half's segments, with their critical comments on how a female should act and be, have the potential to incite evilness among the world's dimwits. The central concept is incorrect in many respects, despite the director's attempts to persuade us by including a few exchanges in the conclusion that is in sharp contrast to the viewpoint that has been presented throughout. The plot is weak and ineffective, failing to hold the audience's interest for the majority of the film.

A strong psychological thriller should compel the audience to explore the psychopaths' minds, however bizarre they may be, before allowing us to empathize with the characters. None of the scenes in Bagheera help us comprehend the main character's situation or the reasons behind the killing spree. The second-half flashback scenes involving Bagheera and his brother Murali (Srikanth) are neither intense nor moving.

Pre-climactic scenes include a female who becomes imprisoned in a villa with a psychopath and is written more like slasher thrillers. Once more, it is ineffective, and the construction is really shoddy. Even having performers like Nasser, Prabhudeva, and Srikanth, the movie nevertheless suffers too much to be entertaining. Moreover, phrases like "Ponnungalala dhaan pasanga paithiyakaarangala sutharanga" simply make the situation worse. With the exception of sakshi agarwal and amyra dastur, the majority of the movie's female characters don't have much of an opportunity to shine on screen. Both have performed admirably and given what was required of them.

Prabhudeva has given a compelling performance while surprising us with his antics. But, since the universe in which these activities are staged is completely unrelatable, none of it persists in our minds. For a subject like this, the film's technical aspects are also uninteresting. Even if Bagheera had been released decades ago, spreading these types of concepts would have been ridiculous.
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SIBY JEYYA

03/03/2023 02:54 PM