Gowtam Tinnanuri’s ‘Kingdom’ has Vijay Deverakonda carrying a story that needed more emotion
- Trinity Auditorium
- Jul 31
- 1 min read
The cleanly written film is about a Chosen One. It is also a story about brothers, and a spy thriller. But these various strands don’t merge satisfactorily. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.
Kingdom opens with a short story, and then tells a longer story set 70 years later. There are parallels. In the earlier timeline, the British are waging war on tribals in Sri Lanka in order to get their gold. In the newer timeline, the villains have changed but the oppression remains the same. An international smuggling cartel operating between Sri Lanka and Hong Kong is using the descendants of those tribals we saw earlier to smuggle gold biscuits. In both timelines, the fighting is brutal, with not just the men being killed but also women and children. And in both timelines, Vijay Deverakonda plays the leader. In the British era, he is the king of the tribe. And now, he is the Chosen One – and, of course, like all Chosen Ones, he is unaware of his destiny. When we first see him in the second timeline, he is a cop in a small village. His name is Suri.
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