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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