Reviews & Ratings for
వర్షం (2004)

This is a must watch for any Prabhas fan, because he is wet for so much of the movie. :) The title Varsham means Rain.

The film opens with a girl being kidnapped from a movie set by some goons. We first Prabhas (Venkat) rescuing his uncle who has had a heart attack. He vows to find money for his by-pass, and tells his aunt not to worry. As he leaves the hospital, he is approached to find the kidnapped girl. He stops and says ...."I'll find her. Not because I love her, but for the money." Cue extensive flashback as he stares at her picture in his wallet.

Prabhas (Venkat) meets Sailaja on a train. When the train makes a stop, he is entranced by the sight of her praying to the god of Rain and then dancing with abandon. He doesn't notice that a local ganglord also is captivated by the sight of Sailaja. He doesn't get her name or anything before he is left behind and despairs of ever seeing her again.

He is shopping in the market of his town with his uncle and aunt and their son when it starts to rain again -- and he spots her again out in the rain shopping. He asks to take her to the local temple site where he promises a rainbow and says it must be seen in the rain. The rain abruptly stops and she coquettishly says she will see him when it next rains again. He prays for rain, she prays for rain, and there is a comic calling in to the local TV meteorologist.

When it next rains they meet up at that temple site, and THIS song sequence happens. Oh. My. Sweet. Lord.

https://youtu.be/gDL9xrZOKbY

Later in the romance there is this little scene that I just adored where they are sharing a melon slice Disney Lady in the Tramp style. So swoon worthy.

Our heroine's father is really a shit in this movie. He is a gambler and gets in debt to the evil ganglord. He tries everything he can to break up Venkat and Sailaja so that he can give his daughter to the ganglord, including framing Venkat. And they do break up, and are not really reconciled for quite some time even after the rescue happens and they are on the run. So it's big misunderstanding -- large egos of all, etc. AND huge Ramayana influence, and if you weren't getting it, the final scene happens AT the festival with the big Raavan effigy and a Ramlila playing out (with hijras!)

Not the same machete violence rating as Mirchi, but plenty of action scenes. One that I found particularly interesting -- the gundas try to pick up Venkat on the street but he's with his little nephew. Venkat says, let me just take the boy home then I'll go with you. The gundas pick up the child and start tossing him over Venkat's head as they circle round him, taunting him. It was an interesting scene, because this larger than life- can take on 20 guys with one hand hero is rendered almost helpless for several minutes. He can't use his normal violence, because the maybe 6 year old nephew is in their arms. Plus, there was so much endangerment of this child, and I kept thinking how dangling a child out of a moving car and such probably would not be filmed like this in Hollywood!!

This movie wasn't as easy to find good quality AND with subtitles. I used the Chrome subtitle add-on where I dragged the subtitle file onto an HD Youtube copy, then had to hook my laptop up to my TV as the subtitles don't show up via Chromecast when you do that. I will be buying this one. Prabhas plus water is always a good thing!