About Vedaa
| Title: | Vedaa |
|---|---|
| Original Title: | वेदा: संविधान के रक्षक |
| Plot: | A court-marshalled soldier with a traumatic past helps a young girl from 'lower' caste and an aspiring boxer work towards her dreams despite her hostile environment. |
| Cast: | John Abraham, Sharvari Wagh, Abhishek Banerjee, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Kshitij Chauhan, Tamannaah Bhatia |
| Director: | Nikkhil Advani |
| Cinematography: | Malay Prakash |
| Editor: | Maahir Zaveri |
Vedaa
Suparna Sharma
Independent Film Critic
Caste vs the legend of John Abraham
Since it is a Nikkhil Advani film, it's politically sharp, gritty and mildly feminist
Vedaa is not a film about boxing, though its trailer seemed to suggest that. Director Nikkhil Advani’s film has a bit of boxing, of course, but its plot’s real drivers are caste and caste atrocities. However, Vedaa, starring John Abraham and Sharvari Wagh in the lead, is not a film about caste either. Vedaa is an action-thriller created to embellish and enhance the legend of John Abraham. In this enterprise, boxing is a tiny diversion and caste plays the same part that Islamic terrorism has often played in previous John Abraham-the-one-man-killer-machine films—It’s very bad and it must be annihilated. But since Vedaa is a Nikkhil Advani film, it’s politically sharp, gritty and mildly feminist. Written by Aseem Arora, Vedaa is set in Rajasthan, but its story really begins in Kashmir. Yep, that same-old scenic battleground Abraham keeps visiting, repeatedly, to save the nation from the Phiran-wearing, machine gun-carrying Islamic terrorists.