Poster of the film Vedaa

Vedaa

Action Drama Thriller Hindi


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
Writer:Aseem Arora
Editor:Maahir Zaveri
Camera:Malay Prakash

Guild Reviews

Image of scene from the film Vedaa

Caste vs the legend of John Abraham

FCG Member Reviewer Suparna Sharma
Suparna Sharma | Independent Film Critic
Fri, August 16 2024

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.

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FCG Member Reviewer Rohit Khilnani
Rohit Khilnani | Bollywood Hungama
August 15, 2024

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