Adithya Varma (2019)
A genius surgeon spirals out of control after losing his true love. Fans of intense dramas like "Breaking Bad" will rejoice.
Genres: Drama, Romance
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Adithya Varma(2019)
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A brilliant and short-tempered young surgeon goes down a self-destructive path when the love of his life is forced to marry another man.
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Dhruv Vikram
Adithya Varma

Banita Sandhu
Meera

Priya Anand
Priya Menon

Raja
Vasudevan Varma

Dheepa Ramanujam
Bhavani Varma

Anbu Thasan
Dr. Parthi

Ashwin Kumar
Siddharth Varma

Kartavya Kabra
Samar

Leela Samson
Adithya's Grandmother

Achyuth Kumar
Devdas Shetty

Meena Vemuri
Mallika Devdas Shetty

Usha Elizabeth
Usha

Alekhya Harika
Nurse

Bhagyalakshmi
Judge

Bagavathi Perumal
Lawyer

Anitha Sampath
Newsreader

Malini Sathappan
Meera's friend
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In the opening scene of Adithya Varma, we see an old woman (Leela Samson) talking about the obsessive nature of her grandson with pride to her friends. This scene gives an inkling into why Adithya Varma (Dhruv Vikram) is the man he is. His grandmother is just one among the people in his inner circle who have enabled his abusive behavior since childhood and turned him into the angry, rebellious, possessive and abusive young man who cannot take rejections. In his introduction scene, we see Adithya getting frisky with a young woman. But before they can have sex, the woman's fiance knocks on the door. While the woman, who had been a willful participant until then, stops him, in a momentary fit, the enraged Adithya threatens her to undress at knife point. Director Gireesaaya stages this scene in such a way that the power that has gone off in the house acts as a visual metaphor. It's almost as if the switch inside Adithya's head has gone off, bringing the darkness inside him to the surface. But then, the power comes back, and Adithya comes back to his senses. What follows next establishes his mental state. He desperately wants to get physical with a woman, but when he realizes that might not be possible, he cools himself off by putting ice in his groin. Adithya Varma is the remake of the Telugu film Arjun Reddy (which was recently remade in Hindi as well - Kabir Singh) and this opening stretch - which glorifies the acts of the protagonist and tries to project them as bad-ass and cool ("unconventional mindset" and "free-spirited" are some of the terms that characters in the film use to describe him) - makes you realize that the criticism that the films have invited are valid. But thankfully, this Tamil version also sets right some of the problematic aspects of the original. The narrative switches between these episodes of Adithya's self-destructive behavior and the past, where, he, as a house surgeon, falls in love at first sight when he sees Meera (Banita Sandhu), a demure fresher who has joined his college in Bangalore. But unlike in Arjun Reddy, here, Meera's intentions are clear to us right from the start. While Adithya came across as someone imposing himself on a hapless girl in the original, here, we see that Meera is as interested in him as he is in her. Unlike Shalini Pandey, whose sad eyes made the character's acquiescence ambiguous, Banita plays Meera with a smile, clearly conveying that the character is interested in this relationship as much as Adithya. There is real chemistry between her and Dhruv, and the two young actors make us buy into the madness in their characters and in this strange romance. Meanwhile, Adithya's life keeps spiraling out of control in the present as he obsesses over the failure of his romance, which has led to Meera being forcefully married to another man by her caste-conscious father. Even as he immerses himself into alcohol and drugs, his family (his elder brother) and friends (his college friend) rally around him and try to bring him back to normalcy, but will there be light at the end of this personal suffering? Given its troubled production, there were doubts if the film might be any good, but Gireesaaya delivers a well-made, if overly faithful, remake with Adithya Varma. The film is as intense as the original, with a lead performance that suggests that we might be witnessing the birth of a star. Dhruv Vikram comes up with a performance that apes Vijay Deverakonda's intense and raw act in the original note for note, but there is an absurdness and honesty here that makes us appreciate it rather than dismiss it just as mimicry.
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