

‘The demon in me’, a song used as the title rolls, should ideally have welcomed the audience to the world of Mangaladevi but it warns us to stay away from the demonic characters in her world.Īlso, using electronic music with English lyrics in a film that later uses such traditional compositions as ‘Chandrachooda Shiva Shankara Parvathi’ and ‘Soojugada sooju mallige’ is unexpected, but it all works beautifully.

He plays Shiva, pitted against his childhood friend Hari (Rishabh Shetty), who later turns an antagonist.Ī violent story with an almost all-male cast is located in the city of Mangaladevi, with a presiding deity people call ‘Devi’. The film is a classic ‘cop vs criminal’ drama, but Raj packages it in a style novel to Kannada films. Raj B Shetty’s latest directorial ‘Garuda Gamana Vrishabha Vahana’ is a textbook example of how you can deliver a tried and tested formula in a fresh new form.
