Friday, June 3, 2022

Vikram movie review: Kaithi + Master +Kamal Hassan ; only for gangster movie buffs

Vikram , re- entry of Kamal Hassan leaves no stone unturned to make it  big at box office. Yesterday, director Lokesh tweeted - Pls see or revisit Kaithi before seeing Vikram. Reason is that some of the characters in that film and roll over of scenes come in Vikram. If you have not seen it- nothing to worry. Anyway there is no need to say revisit Master - as it is still fresh in our minds.

A larger than life RAW ( bad days for RAW ref- Beast) agent is coming out of retirement. Reason being that his son is dead and trail leads to a bad cop ( Chemban) and a drug mafia kingpin Vijay Sethupathi with another undercover cop ( Fazil) on his trail . Now first half takes it's own time to build up even tough it has a racy start. From interval, film tempo builds up and there is no lag. Surya in the climax is a scene stealer.

Vijay Sethupathi has meaty portions that give him an instant appeal to viewers and Faahad needless to say is just brilliant. Compared to them, Kamal Hassan though the pivotal and USP of the film has taken a role that does not outshine these actors.

Though action choreographers AnbuAriv have directed most of the scenes, Lokesh signature is evident in many scenes like  the kid and Kamal or in the VJS scenes. Anirudh BGM is just apt and cinematography ( Girish) an added muscle to the technical excellence. For a gangster movie genre buff, Vikram is paisa vasool  and those looking for a family entertainer it is a red alert. Has excessive violent scenes but nothing revolting and the gangs are not that scary to frighten weak hearted women and kids. In fact, these baddies are a funny lot. 

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