Virupaksha

Telugu TV serials were the ambient score of my childhood, so I've grown up averse to storylines featuring black magic, with exorcists sitting under banyan trees and chanting spells. Needless to say, going into Virupaksha, I was skeptical of its premise. The thing that bothers me about movies with a supernatural slant is how the stories can take bizarre twists and turns, and almost anything can be explained away in the language of occult symbolism. It also doesn't help that these films tend to be crudely adapted, and are oftentimes unappealing to look at - a characteristic vignette being of a l....