Lokesh is one of my favorite director and my favorite film of him is Master, it was Awesome combination of storytelling, emotions and Fan service of Vijay.
Here, I guess Lokesh was trying to live his childhood dream and encorporated everything he loves in a single movie and tried to make it the greatest movie of all time but he only succeeded partially. As a Refrence I would like to say 'he was trying to make a Guy Ritchie film with a SS Rajamouli film with a Michael Bay film with with a Quentin Tarantino film' all four in one along with full tribute and Fan service to kamal hasan & full utilisation of Fahadh Faasil. In the process he went into overkill mode & as a result the film visually looks Awesome with some great mass moments but that's about it, you take nothing home with you. You don't care about the story or the characters much, you just wait for the next mass moment and action scene. Also in trying to tick so many boxes he wasted awesome Vijay Sethupathi ,who was phenomenal in Master but he had nothing much to do in this film, he was just a generic villian whose only role was to growl looking at the camera.
Now I am going to talk a bit about SPOILERS for those who have seen the movie, and for those who haven't
SPOILER ALERT
Everyone's Excited about Surya's cameo, his character was build up like he was the boss of all bosses; but I didn't feel one bit intimidated or intrigued by his presence.
Instead of the star presence and the gravity that he has there was nothing new or exciting about his character, he was shouting, trying to be menacing and unpredictable but his role just went flat for me. It didn't kept me hooked or Excited on how he would produce a great challenge and antagonist to Kamal Hasan's character in the next part, it just looked like Surya was trying to play a drug addict mob boss villian.
All in all it's a decent watch for Kamal Hasan, Fahadh Faasil some action sequences and mass moments but nothing more than that.
Here, I guess Lokesh was trying to live his childhood dream and encorporated everything he loves in a single movie and tried to make it the greatest movie of all time but he only succeeded partially. As a Refrence I would like to say 'he was trying to make a Guy Ritchie film with a SS Rajamouli film with a Michael Bay film with with a Quentin Tarantino film' all four in one along with full tribute and Fan service to kamal hasan & full utilisation of Fahadh Faasil. In the process he went into overkill mode & as a result the film visually looks Awesome with some great mass moments but that's about it, you take nothing home with you. You don't care about the story or the characters much, you just wait for the next mass moment and action scene. Also in trying to tick so many boxes he wasted awesome Vijay Sethupathi ,who was phenomenal in Master but he had nothing much to do in this film, he was just a generic villian whose only role was to growl looking at the camera.
Now I am going to talk a bit about SPOILERS for those who have seen the movie, and for those who haven't
SPOILER ALERT
Everyone's Excited about Surya's cameo, his character was build up like he was the boss of all bosses; but I didn't feel one bit intimidated or intrigued by his presence.
Instead of the star presence and the gravity that he has there was nothing new or exciting about his character, he was shouting, trying to be menacing and unpredictable but his role just went flat for me. It didn't kept me hooked or Excited on how he would produce a great challenge and antagonist to Kamal Hasan's character in the next part, it just looked like Surya was trying to play a drug addict mob boss villian.
All in all it's a decent watch for Kamal Hasan, Fahadh Faasil some action sequences and mass moments but nothing more than that.