Watch: Ram Gopal Varma is back with the eerie, fast-paced trailer of 'Killing Veerappan'

RGV is back, and with a bang, with his new film Killing Veerappan, based on the life of the master criminal. The trailer starts with some statistics of how many people Veerapan killed, setting the mood of what looks like a typical Ram Gopal Varma noir film (90 elephants, 97 policemen and 184 humans, incase you were wondering). There’s a lot of blood, and quite a bit of bomb blasts in the first 30 seconds, but we’re no surprised. [caption id=“attachment_2563970” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A still from Killing Veerappan. Youtube screen grab.[/caption] If you thought Dilwale’s ‘Gerua’ was badly colour corrected, this trailer will make you rethink that. The whole trailer is filled with white and blue hues. This “story behind India’s biggest manhunt” has some typical Varma shots: fast-paced zoom ins, obscure angles and radio silence with dialogues but a glaringly loud background score. Does it manage to pack a punch? Yes; in the same way an eerie thriller would. The actor who plays Veerappan is passable, and we prefer Sushant Singh from RGV’s 90s sleeper film Jungle, who didn’t play Veerappan per se, but managed to carry out the role of a tyrant forest smuggler with much more swag. The trailer picks up pace in the last 10 seconds, where there a lot more bullet shots and dramatic expressions. The film is already muddled in legal cases , with complainants claiming that the events in the film are not factually correct. Killing Veerappan is set to release in 2016. Watch the trailer here: