Waltair Veerayya (2023)

Original title

వాల్తేరు వీరయ్య

Directed by

K. S. Ravindra

Genre

drama film, action film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 40m

Rated

15

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A notorious smuggler is recruited by an Indian intelligence agency to bring back a drug lord from Malaysia. The mission turns personal when he discovers links to his late half-brother who was a police officer.

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What happens

Waltair Veerayya is a 2023 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Bobby Kolli and produced by Mythri Movie Makers. The film stars Chiranjeevi as the title character alongside Ravi Teja, Shruti Haasan, Catherine Tresa, Prakash Raj, Bobby Simha, Rajendra Prasad, and Vennela Kishore. Notorious smuggler Waltair Veerayya is recruited by RA&W to extradite a dangerous drug lord from Malaysia to India. However, the mission reveals a deeper personal vendetta involving Veerayya’s past and his relationship with his late half-brother Vikram Sagar IPS (Teja), an upright police officer. The film was announced in August 2021. Principal photography commenced in December 2021 with filming taking place in Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Malaysia. The soundtrack was composed by Devi Sri Prasad with cinematography by Arthur A. Wilson and editing by Niranjan Devaramane. Waltair Veerayya was released on 13 January 2023, coinciding with Sankranti weekend, and received mixed to positive reviews from critics. The film became commercially successful at the box office, thus becoming the third highest-grossing Telugu film of 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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