With the successes of the KGF series and Salaar, Prashanth Neel became one of the most popular filmmakers in India.
Currently, he has Salaar 2 and a movie with Jr NTR in the lineup. Meanwhile, Prashanth wrote the script for the recently released film, Bagheera. Generally, there will be good buzz around the film when Prashanth Neel is involved in it.
However, Bagheera failed to gain that buzz only because the team failed to promote it in the name of Neel. Hombale Films invested a lot of money in a medium-range hero like Sri Murali only for Prashanth Neel.
But unfortunately, the movie failed to recover its costs. First of all, the movie’s plot is not interesting at all. It follows the story of Mangaluru ACP Vedanth (Sri Murali) who has been an ardent fan of superheroes since his childhood and aspires to be a police officer just to become like a superhero.
However, his aspirations are restricted by evil forces. In the process, he becomes vigilante Bagheera and starts attacking criminals at night. That’s when he happens to lock horns with Rana (Garuda Ram). What follows next is a typical commercial story.
Director Suri’s screenplay and treatment are very outdated, making Bagheera a tiresome watch. There is no emotional arc for the hero and thus, the audience fails to get connected to the story.
Even the love track with heroine Rukmini Vasanth is very weak. With all elements failing, Bagheera ends up as a huge disappointment and even Prashanth Neel fans were shocked to see such a story from him.
