Ranga has a far more colourful inner life than Billa, so that allowed for some variation in the song treatments.
Prabhas gets an opportunity to play up the confusion as Ranga impersonates Billa but his characterisations are so broad that there is no ambiguity at all. Ranga is sympathetic without being overly complex. This role is a better fit for Prabhas as his likeable goofy side is given more rein and he is more expressive. Prabhas also plays Ranga – a naive thief and layabout who has a heart of gold. Ranga is Billa’s duplicate and when Billa is out of circulation, the police use Ranga to infiltrate the gang. The English dialogues were often very funny though I am not sure the level of cliché was intended. I did like Billa’s catchphrase ‘Trust no one.
He is a cranky intolerant man, and Prabhas does well to be so unlikeable and dour. He lives a luxurious lifestyle on his private island where he continues to overdress for the beach. He is out to eliminate the competition and stay ahead of the law while selling arms, drugs and who knows what else to villains all over South-East Asia. The chafing must have been a nightmare.īilla works for ‘Devil’ and seems to be a model employee. Prabhas plays the title role of Billa – a gangster with a puzzling penchant for black satin and three piece suits. It is a modern, slick film with a dash of B movie and the spirit of making do for the sake of entertainment. I enjoyed the total disregard of inconvenient logic and budgetary challenges. Meher Ramesh adheres to Telugu film conventions requiring happy endings and righteous heroes so there are a few changes. I’ve seen all of them, plus the more recent Hindi Don starring Shah Rukh, so I didn’t expect the unexpected and largely this is faithful to those predecessors. Billa is a remake of Billa (Tamil) which is a remake of an earlier Rajnikanth film of the same name which is a remake of the Amitabh Bachchan classic Don (Salim-Javed are credited for the original story).
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