Sunny Deol is one of Bollywood's action heroes but he too has acted in some of the worst action movies ever. Some of his films did extremely good at the b.o while others were runaway hits whilst others just flopped. It was some of those hits like Ghayal(1990), Narsimha(1991), Vishnu Devaa(1991), and Vishwatma(1992 that gave him the successes he needed in the early 90s.Mainly Ghayal got him that tremendous acclaim his career needed after the average 1980s period. However, the 90s too proved to be a time where Deol has his biggest successes whilst his not so successful films too. 1991 saw the release of many Sunny Deol films from which only Vishnu Deva, Narsminha succeeded. Films like Yodha,Shankara, and Veerta flopped. Veerta was one such film that turned out to be a dud for a Sunny Deol film. The film had the perfect formula for a hit Sunny Deol film but the film completely failed in parts and got letdown by several things.
The plot is nothing great, it is about Mangal who comes to the city to visit his best friend. Mangal gets taunted and mocked for his poor English and typical villager style attitude. However, he soon learns the tricks of the city and becomes clever. With the help of his best friend, Mangal gets appointed as a responsible person in the factory. However, after a drastic step to frame Mangal of the murder of a crime he didn't commit, Mangal takes revenge and saves his friend from the villains.
For a change, Deol doesn't only fight and fight without any reason. He provides some decent laughs and uses his clever instincts to trick and trap the villains. After all villagers aren't taken for granted, they too have brains. This is well shown in the film. However, what sucks is the editing again. Some scenes aren't well explained, the tempo of the film is bad in parts and it fails to create the entertainment other films of this type create. Moreover, the film drags and drags for a while until the interval point where the killers make their move.
Direction by Shibu Mitra is decent, he makes a good film with good moments just like his hit film Paap Ki Duniya. If only he handled the film better in certain parts of the film, things would have been better.
Performances are good, Mangal's friend makes a decent performance for a smart and kind friend. Sunny Deol as Mangal carries his innocent but clever village act quite well, his comic scenes are a delight. Jaya Pradha's role is not well edited as it becomes hard to presume who is her hero Mangal or his friend in the second half of the film but she does a good job. Prem Chopra is typecast yet he does a decent job as the cunning villain.
Music is quite average but the Baily O Baily friendship song is quite decent, its catchy for a 90s song too.
On the whole, Veerta is one of those films which were decent but somehow they became flops. Can't believe people liked Narsimha more than this. That was a violent crap film whilst this was a decent film.
The plot is nothing great, it is about Mangal who comes to the city to visit his best friend. Mangal gets taunted and mocked for his poor English and typical villager style attitude. However, he soon learns the tricks of the city and becomes clever. With the help of his best friend, Mangal gets appointed as a responsible person in the factory. However, after a drastic step to frame Mangal of the murder of a crime he didn't commit, Mangal takes revenge and saves his friend from the villains.
For a change, Deol doesn't only fight and fight without any reason. He provides some decent laughs and uses his clever instincts to trick and trap the villains. After all villagers aren't taken for granted, they too have brains. This is well shown in the film. However, what sucks is the editing again. Some scenes aren't well explained, the tempo of the film is bad in parts and it fails to create the entertainment other films of this type create. Moreover, the film drags and drags for a while until the interval point where the killers make their move.
Direction by Shibu Mitra is decent, he makes a good film with good moments just like his hit film Paap Ki Duniya. If only he handled the film better in certain parts of the film, things would have been better.
Performances are good, Mangal's friend makes a decent performance for a smart and kind friend. Sunny Deol as Mangal carries his innocent but clever village act quite well, his comic scenes are a delight. Jaya Pradha's role is not well edited as it becomes hard to presume who is her hero Mangal or his friend in the second half of the film but she does a good job. Prem Chopra is typecast yet he does a decent job as the cunning villain.
Music is quite average but the Baily O Baily friendship song is quite decent, its catchy for a 90s song too.
On the whole, Veerta is one of those films which were decent but somehow they became flops. Can't believe people liked Narsimha more than this. That was a violent crap film whilst this was a decent film.
