Henchwomen Fight

In 2025 movie Mirai. Actress Tanja Keller plays as villainess Yuca. Been a long time since I watched a Bollywood movie, in this movie we have the gorgeous Tanja Keller as a main villainess, so I hope the movie is fun to watch.

Ok, basically there are 9 warriors who like, one of them is Ambika Prajapati played by Shriya Saran, the 9 warriors have like superpower, whoever attain it can take over the world.

I love the songs, just amazing, and it's perfect for the theme of the movie.

It seems we also have a good male villain, Mahabhir Lama played by Manoj Kumar Manchu, which is cool, with western movies, they always either they give you a horrible male villain, or a horrible female villain, never work on both.

 One criticism I have of this movie is how they basically told us the original story of the hero, as Ambika just gave away her newborn child, and they are telling us, "She first give him away, after 24 years he comes back, he's special..", like instead of making us curious about Ambika and his origin, and how he discover his powers and make us discover the plot alongside the hero of the movie, so we can basically be more engaging with his journey till he finally achieve his destiny.

You know, that's why I believe using modern technology ruin the movie experience, when Vibha went looking for the hero, she had to read people's mind, so people who she can know where he is from people who don't want to tell her about his whereabouts, use modern tech, and all of that will be ruined, basically she will go to check social media account or get a number and call it, or even easier, DM him on social media, basically all of that will be ruined, and the final outcome would be awful, that's why sometimes it's better to just ignore modern technology when needed.

Damn, the fight scene of Mahabhir Lama around 30 minutes mark is so cool.

The hero is telling Vibha, the one is supposed to prepare him to save the world, that he loves her, like, they just met, like, when did this happen? Not only that, he want to marry her!!

   Ok, now Vibha is telling the hero about his origin story around 41 minutes, and it feels absolutely nothing as we already know his origin story, then the movie take us in flashbacks about the hero's childhood, which also feel nothing, while if we were introduced to it first, we could engage with him growing up and the difficulties he faced till this point.

 We first see Yuca around 42 minutes, like, finally!! Basically she was being trained for entire decade under, who I assume, one of the 9 warriors in order to find the whereabouts of Ambika, and once he told her about Ambika's whereabouts, she killed him as now her long undercover mission was completed.

We have another great fight of the main villain, Lama, around 55 minutes, beside the fight, it's hilarious that the actors basically saying gibberish and subtitle says (In Arabic), like, one of us doesn't speak Arabic, and it's not me LOL. The main villain gave us evil laughs tho, which is awesome.

We see our gorgeous villainess around 57 minutes, just after the fight, and she goes like "Unexpected visitor, innit?" and the good guy go like "The only unexpected visitor is death"..

While she's there a dove that hold a message from Vibha sending news of how close she is to prepare the hero, entered the temple, Yuca got hold of it, and in order to track the hero, and get her hands on the 9th scripture, she put a tracker on the dove, so she can find them.

And Indeed she manged to track Vibha to the hotel she's in, and damn, her fight scene outside the hotel is something you would never find in any western movie today..

Yuca have a confrontation with the hero right after that, Tanja Keller is absolutely amazing, that's why I love when an actor playing a villain have a background as a stunt performer, the fight scene often turn to be amazing unlike actors who don't, and in that case I prefer them to focus more on gun fights, not like direct fight scenes, not saying it can't be done with actors who lack such experiences, it's like easier and more spontaneous with stunt performers.

Anyway, Yuca defeated the hero, and was about to finish him, if not Vibha intervened and asked Yuca to spare him in exchange to surrender to her as she's the only one that can lead her to the 9th manuscript.

   Finally the cool songs back again around 1 hour 10 minutes..

The hero then went to save Vibha, yet in order to do so, he have to go across Lord Garuda territories, which something no one manged to do in 300 years.. You know that's what expect of Hollywood movies about ancient mythologies, like this movie looks way better than Clash of the Titans for example, and the music and the effects all work perfectly for the overall theme, yet, I'm not big fan of overuse of CGI, the best CGIs are the ones I don't notice it exist, but overall, even the effects of Lord Garuda looks really cool, absolutely amazing..

I wish if the movie found a way to mix between the CGI and practical effects, which would make it perfect, when using CGI alone, movies tend to darken the movie to make the human imagination to fix the imperfect work of CGI, or use a mix of practical effects and CGI so the two be mixed so you don't have enough time to detect CGI, but using CGI for a long time, make it look artificial and the viewer can feel it.

We see Yuca again in around 1 hour and 22 minutes, and damn, she's pulling out the heroine's nails, like damn, it looks so painful..

Around 1 hour 29 minutes, our gorgeous villainess took the heroine to meet Lama, and she doesn't like his ways, she told him, "God is the one who mercies and treats everyone equally", that's a very communist god!!

Lama gave us his original story, it turns out this isn't his peak villainy, apparently now he tuned his villainy down. Like I thought they will go, well, he's not a villain, but the little brat burned the entire village, like, he is actually evil, it was like "They treated me badly, well, didn't end up good for them" LOL. 

Around 1 hour 36 minutes, the stunning villainess face the hero again for the last time, after she was sent by the main villain with a new weapon to end him once and for all.

Ok, now let's talk about some things I found interesting about the movie, I like how Yuca sent her teacher bye bye after a decade of being a student of him till he gave her the information she wanted, It's like what I said about the relation between the villain and the hero in What villains teach us? it's kind of reversed because usually heroes are the one who win, and usually you get one hero with multiple villains, yet, in this movie the main heroes outnumber the main villains, you basically get two main villains, Yuca and Lama, the rest of villains kind of nameless, while the heroes, there are tons of them, you can also see such relation with Lama basically being taught by the heroes, the nine warriors, and you can see the books symbolizing that, and as I said in the post, when the teacher doesn't have anything to teach, either they became a student or leave the class, so, either the nine warriors to be under Lama's control, or they leave, historically all great stories always have multiple meanings, like literal and metaphorical, and that's what I see in this movie, like, you can basically interpret Lama's destroying the village as him destroying the idea of a village that act in a certain way, and so on.. The movie as a whole was absolutely awesome, and the final battle with the music, the fights, the stakes, the gods, and everything, like ending the movie on the highest point is absolutely amazing.

I wish if we got more scenes of Yuca, yet I'm so happy to see Tanja Keller for the first time playing a role where she actually deliver lines, I'm so grateful to that, and I really hope to see her again in another movie, that was awesome, Tanja Keller is amazing 🔥🔥🔥.