Vrusshabha movie review: An Epic Lullaby

Vrusshabha movie review

It requires some special talent to make a 2 hours and 7 minutes movie into a snooze fest and do not forget the movie stars the phenomenal actor Mohanlal in lead. Writer director of ‘Vrusshabha’ Nanda Kishore has achieved this feat.

‘Vrusshabha’ has an interesting idea of a father son duo who start getting haunted by their previous life (punar janam) and a curse that threatens to change everything, in execution achieves almost nothing.

No moments, no high points, there is nothing to remember from this punar janam epic, ab har koi toh Rajamouli nahi ho sakta na’ Rajamouli is the best at present when he comes to re incarnation – ‘Magadheera’, ‘Makhhi’, ‘Baahubali’, ab kaha raja bhoj aur gangu teli, Kher anyways coming back to the Mohanlal starrer, the movie is lazily written and the dialogues are disasters. Picture this – the son Tej (Samarjit Lankesh) compares his dad’s Aadi (Mohanlal) cheeks to Ragi Idlis and biceps to a protein shake (I know what you are thinking but) this is the idea of coolness and bonding between a father and son in this epic misadventure.

The innocence of Nanda Kishore needs to be admired, ‘Vrusshabha’ is off putting right from the word go and the crew has maintained the standards by tacky visual effects and uninspiring moments. No bonding is felt between the father and son and there is hardly any chemistry between Tej and Damini (Nayan Sarika). No emotion, no romance, no feeling.

Mohanlal tries his best but what can he do if the script doesn,t give such talent any iota of a chance to show depth.

Samarjit Lankesh as Tej tries his level best but cannot overcome the poorly written character.

The rest of the cast just completes the formality - Nayan Sarika, Ragini Dwivedi, Neha Saxena, Vinay Varma, Ajay, Ramachandra Raju, Ali, Kishore, Ayyappa P. Sharma, Raghu Hondadakeri and Jeetendra (in a special appearance).

Technically ‘Vrusshabha’ is not that bad

Antony Samson’s camerawork is good. Action and stunt scenes (choreographed by Peter Hein, Stunt Silva, Ganesh Kumar and Nikhil) have some excitement. Naidita Singh and Mohan B. Kere’s production designing is passable. Sam C.S.’s background music is good. However, the music is very routine and the editor Prakash should have received extra scissors.

The Hindi dubbing by K.M is fine.

Vrusshabha movie review – final words

Mohanlal has had a great 2025 though I didn’t like ‘L2: Empuraan’ he did a good job, ‘Thudarum’ was a fine crime thriller and Hridayapoorvam was touching. But this punar janam saga ‘Vrusshabha’ is a big No, even if you are a diehard Lalettan fan.

Going with a disappointing two stars out of five (2/5)

Produced by Connekkt Media, Balaji Motion Pictures, Abishek S Vyas Studios and distributed by Geetha Arts, Aashirvad Cinemas, Pen Movies (Hindi) and KVN Productions, ‘Vrusshabha’ is running in theatres from December 25, 2025.

Pls note: This is the Hindi dubbed review of ‘Vrusshabha’.