Veer
- Director
- Anil Sharma
- Studio
- Vijay Galani Movies
- Release Date
- 21 January 2010
- Running Time
- 164 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹63.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹68.11 Cr
Review
Salman Khan swings a sword, bellows some dialogues, and calls it patriotism in this bloated period drama that mistakes loudness for grandeur. Directed by Anil Sharma, "Veer" attempts to stitch together a 1875 revenge saga with a cross-cultural romance, but the execution is sloppy and self-indulgent. The film's first half drowns in heavy-handed nationalism and predictable action sequences, while Khan's wooden performance—all brooding stares and grunts—fails to anchor the emotional weight the narrative demands. Katrina Kaif fares better as the princess, bringing some grace to what could've been a thankless role, but even her presence can't salvage the derivative plotting. The London sequences feel like a Hollywood film hijacked by someone allergic to subtlety, and the climactic revelations land with all the impact of a wet dhol.
What truly grates is how cynically this film weaponizes historical grievance and royal romance to manufacture mass appeal. Sharma, whose directorial average speaks for itself, doesn't trust his audience to feel anything without cranking the melodrama to eleven. The cinematography is occasionally striking, but it's used to paper over a fundamentally hollow script that mistakes scale for substance. Every emotional beat is telegraphed minutes in advance, every conflict resolved through confrontation rather than character development. The film wants to be an epic; instead, it's a vanity project wrapped in a patriotic flag.
Rating: 4/10
Storyline
So basically, this movie is set back in 1875 and follows this warrior dude named Veer whose family has been fighting against this royal kingdom for ages. His dad was this legendary fighter, but the king of that kingdom teamed up with the British and basically wiped out thousands of Veer's people, which obviously created this massive blood feud between them. It's all pretty intense and violent from the start, with old family grudges running deep.
The cool part is that Veer and his younger brother get sent to London to study and become more educated, which is pretty different from their warrior lifestyle back home. While they're there, Veer meets this absolutely gorgeous princess who happens to be the daughter of his family's enemy, and naturally they're super attracted to each other. The whole London college setting creates this interesting vibe where they're trying to fit in while learning about the world, but their families' hatred is always lurking in the background.
Things get complicated pretty quickly though because Veer's true identity gets exposed while he's still at college, and everything kind of blows up in a dramatic way. Without spoiling what actually happens, let's just say that when secrets come out and people realize who everyone really is, it creates this massive emotional situation that changes everything for both Veer and the princess. It's got all the typical Bollywood elements of star-crossed lovers caught between family loyalty and personal feelings.
