Taurus review: Mohanlal’s reincarnation drama lacks innovation, it’s extremely long
Vrishabha Movie Review: Directed by Nand Kishore and starring Mohanlal alongside Samarjit Lankesh, the film is a fantasy action drama based on reincarnation. The film lacks technical finesse and looks uninspired.
2025 was a great year for Mohanlal with three consecutive hits. He had a strong start to the year L2: MPuranaThis was followed by a delicious crime thriller, Thudaram And scored a heart-touching hat-trick hridayapurvamVrishabha is his fourth film as a hero (except cameos), Kannappa And bha bha baWas the film successful in impressing the audience? Let’s find out!
Adi Deva Varma (Mohanlal) is a successful businessman and father of Tej (Samarjeet Lankesh). The father-son duo behave like best friends, and their life is all about supporting each other through difficulties. However, Aadhi starts having visions of his past life where he was King Vrishabha.
And when Tej visits his father’s native village, he also experiences mysterious visions, which affect the dynamics between the father and son relationship. These visions give him clues about his past life, revealing the biggest curse affecting him. Will Aadhi and Tej be able to realize their dreams? Will they be able to restore their father-son dynamic?
taurusWritten and directed by Nand Kishore, it has an interesting premise that touches upon reincarnation, generational curse and father-son relationship. However, nothing comes together in this fantasy drama. From complex visual effects to random scenes and ridiculous dialogues, taurus Has been disturbing since its inception.
The film begins with a father-son relationship, but you hardly find this relationship endearing. Thanks to those funny dialogues where the son compares his father’s cheeks to ragi idli and his biceps to a protein shake. If you think this is the most absurd dialogue you have ever heard, then you have to look no further to see Tej and Damini (Nayan Sarika) falling in love with each other. In four days. He is another love-obsessed male actor who equates a girlfriend’s love to a mother’s nurturing. After a heated argument with him, she laments that the love they had for four days ended in four hours.
If you still want to look beyond this foolishness, you are transported to the flashback where King Vrishabha’s wife is tricked into showing off her sword tricks. However, in the present, he is only there to express his shock in every frame. With a runtime of just 2 hours 7 minutes, the film seems long. So much so that you feel like you’re on Interstellar’s Miller Planet, where one hour is equal to seven years.
Mohanlal, having a wonderful year, does everything he can with material that gives him nothing. As a modern businessman, he is charming in his nature and beginnings, but the screenplay never allows him to delve deeper. As King Vrishabha, he provides the expected intensity in the battle scenes, but the character lacks depth other than being “a great warrior cursed by fate”. This is Mohanlal on autopilot – competent but uninspired, which is a criminal waste of an actor who gave us three memorable performances earlier this year.
Samarjit Lankesh as Tej struggles with a poorly written character who oscillates between angry son and love-mad puppy. The father-son chemistry, which should be the emotional center of the film, never flares up as the writing limits their bond to superficial banter about body parts and protein shakes. Lankesh tries, but he is drowning in dialogue that can challenge even experienced actors.
The supporting cast barely registers, lost in a narrative that can’t decide whether it’s a fantasy epic or a reincarnation drama.
taurus Wastes an interesting premise with complicated visual effects, nonsensical dialogue and aimless storytelling. After 2 hours it feels like an eternity, of taurus The biggest curse is on its audience.