Bheema

Bheema (Vijay Kumar) is an adopted son of Java Ramanna (Achyuth Kumar), who ran a garage. His previous employee Manju was crooked and became a drug peddler making the garage as his spot, ruining the name of the garage. His business eventually costs Ramanna dearly and this pitches Bheema against Manju who has grown to be Dragon Manju and a kingpin in drugs mafia. Bheema obliges to his father's wishes but also grew up forming his own gang. He vows to end Manju but first, saving the kids who have been turned into drug addicts / drug peddlers, gives Bheema a bigger purpose. How does he end the reign of Manju, avenging his father and also save his people, forms rest of the story.

Though weak, there is a story here and Vijay Kumar's writing is old school. Unlike Salaga, there is no non-linear narrative and there are no twists ahead. It is a straight forward revenge story which is as violent as it can get with Vijay shedding light on the drugs issue prevalent in the city. The dialogues are raw and the overuse of cuss words was definitely in bad taste. The screenplay is uneven and the story picks up only from the rehabilitation center segment in the second half. Vijay Kumar is ambitious in his 2nd directorial, has couple of strong female characters but that is all the positives I could highlight apart from him finding Dragon Manju as villain. It is extremely violent and the whole teenagers having gang wars influenced by drugs barely made me feel for those characters as they had no back stories or a personality to recognize them apart. They were all foul mouthed gullible kids who don't feel a thing after committing a brutal murder or watching a gruesome death. The writer Vijay should try to humanise his characters rather than keeping them as caricatures.