‘Mirai’ review: Extravagant fantasy adventure coasts along on visual effects and fight scenes

The extravagant action-adventure-mythological Mirai gives Teja Sajja, the star of Hanu-Man (2024), a similar character – a thief and scrap dealer who is unaware of his superpowers until he is called upon to save the world.

Directed by Karthik Gattamneni and co-written with Manibabu Karanam, Mirai starts with an animated Emperor Ashoka. Repentant after the Kalinga carnage, Ashoka divides his life force into eight books that are given for safekeeping to eight warriors in different countries.

The secret of the hiding place of the ninth and most important book is known only to Ambica (Shriya Saran), who lives in an ashram in the Himalayas and has the power of prophecy. Whoever gets the ninth book, along with the other eight, can achieve immortality. To prevent the destruction she has foreseen, Ambica abandon her son Veda (Teja Sajja), who lands up in Hyderabad.

The villain Mahabir Lama (Manoj Manchu) has been capturing the books one by one. For no ostensible reason, Lama is accompanied by a “professor” whose job is to look awed by his exploits.

It’s only a matter of time that he is pitted against Veda. Before encountering Lama, Veda must contend with an English-speaking “lady villain” (Tanja Keller). Other characters too, inexplicably switch to English lines.

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