Vijayendra Varma

Of Fatigues And Fatigue

Quite simply, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, who had alleged that Indian films generally portray Pakistanis as being stupid and uni-dimensional, should not be allowed to see Vijayendra Varma.

For, the film uses every stereotype and goes over the top with jingoism. And at the end of two and a half hours of fight-dance-dance-fight-dance-fight-fight and a story lesser than the hyphens in between, you almost feel like siding with old Musharraf himself.

It is a story that tries to build Balakrishna…