Ram Gopal Varma compares ‘Arjun Reddy’ star Vijay Deverakonda to Amitabh Bachchan and Al Pacino

Vijay Deverakonda’s latest release ‘Arjun Reddy’ is creating much buzz in the South Indian film industry. The movie is receiving immense love from the audience and even the critics cannot stop themselves from praising the romantic drama.

Director Ram Gopal Varma is also hugely impressed with the performance of Vijay that he even called him the Amitabh Bachchan of Tollywood.

RGV took his took his Facebook account to praise Vijay’s performane and wrote, "I always believed that all the heroes of today are very heavily dependent upon slow motion and ramping shots aided with ear splitting background music to appear heroic. Vijay Deverakonda is the first and only actor I ever saw who looks like a hero without the help of any slow motion or ramping shots’’.

He further wrote, His eyes and his voice themselves emanate a built-in background music from within himself’’.

Comparing Vijay with Amitabh Bachchan and Hollywood actor Al Pacino, the director said, "The truth is this that the moment the camera comes to 24 frames there's rarely an actor who can live up to the technical emotion created by varying camera speeds and background music’’.

RGV further added by saying that Vijay is the first actor apart from Amitabh Bachchan who can live up to the same level of intensity without using cinematic techniques’’.

Directed by ‘Arjun Reddy’, the flick also features Shalini Pandey in lead role and Kanchana, Sanjay Swaroop and Rahul Ramakrishna in pivotal roles.

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