Vishwaroopam 2 Review

Cast: Kamal Hassan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea, Rahul Bose

Music: Ghibran

Direction: Kamal Hassan

Kamal Hassan written and directed spy thriller, Vishwaroopam was released in 2013. The film appealed to me at the first watch, and repeated watching made me fall in love with the writing and direction of the film. The sequel of it has finally released after five years. Is this five years matter? Unfortunately yes. The film was on and off in production due to financial problems, which is very well reflected on screen.

To start with, the graphics in this is poor, very poor to Kamal Hassan’s standards. Many screens are shot in green mat and it’s so evident to us. It aches to see such a poor visual effects in Kamal’s movie. The music for the first film was Shankar Ehsaan Loy and this sequel is by Ghibran. The songs are good, but the background score seems to be rushed or under used.

Let set aside the visual effects and background score, the writing is itself suffers after a certain part of the film. Vishwaroopam which stuck to its spy thriller genre gets diverted in this film to a usual revenge story. There are some good writing while he tries to connect dots to Vishwaroopam. The Kamalisms should have made this film interesting, but the narration shorts fall.

The first half sticks to connecting the remaining dots in the first film and second half deals with Omar (Rahul Bose) taking revenge on Wizam (Kamal Hassan). The film seems to be like two different film and the connection is totally lost. In Indian cinema, the intermission block has to be a high point in the story. But the intermission of this film has nothing to do with main plot.

The only take away from Vishwaroopam 2 is the scene where Wizam talks with a British officer (Eashwar Iyer). The scene was loaded with back to back punch lines.

Verdict: A disappointing sequel.

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