Matka (dubbed in Hindi) For my time and money, Varun Tej is one of the interesting young contemporary Telugu actors with a rapidly growing repertoire of impressive roles. In his last outing, Operation Valentine, he was every inch the sinewy soldier. Writer-director Karuna Kumar, who after Palasa 1978 again travels back in time, takes Varun back into the 1970 and 80s to recreate the life and crimes of Matka king Vasu based on the real-life character Ratan Khetri who bamboozled his way into Indian politics with his illicit gambling. I haven’t seen what the original looks like. But Varun Tej