A still from ‘Pichikaran 2’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
In a film industry that has almost never acquired sequel rights, standalone sequels feel like an excuse to capitalize on the popularity of a hit film and Pichaikaran 2 There is a textbook example of this. 2016 movie pitchingIt wasn’t a revelation, but amid the plethora of action and motherly emotions, director Shashi squeezed out an interesting plot that worked prominently for its collective moments. Pichaikaran 2 From Beginning tries to retain the idea as a scaffold to build a new story from, and though it finds an intriguing idea, it fails to progress.
Vijay Antony He has shown his penchant for playing a variety of characters. Of the thirteen films he has played lead roles in, five have featured in multiple roles, including his latest release. While he played the role of a billionaire who moonlights as a beggar pitchingIn the sequel, he plays a beggar named Satya alongside billionaire Vijay Gurumurthy. While the first film was based on the spirit of the mother, this time we get the spirit of the aging sister of Tamil cinema. If in the first film a rich man has to be poor for a month, then in the sequel a poor man accumulates a wealth of one lakh crores. But apart from dichotomy and parallelism, the two films have little else in common.
Pichaikaran 2 (Tamil)
director: Vijay Antony
mold: Vijay Antony, Kavya Thapar, Dev Gill, John Vijay, Harish Paradi, Yogi Babu
Order: 144 minutes
Story: When bad people plant the brain of a billionaire in a beggar, they do not know that the recipient is also a bearer of righteousness.
For those working for Vijay Gurumurthy, greed, as always, overcomes them and they need to find someone whose brain can be transplanted into Vijay’s body. They locate an orphan/beggar as Satya and let science – understood only by Stephen Hawkings and Michio Kaku – take its course. They dispose of Sathya’s body in the Dubai desert, wipe Vijay’s mind as if it were a hard drive that could be formatted, and voila, we’ve got Vijay’s body along with Sathya’s mind. the first 20-odd minutes of Pichaikaran 2Where the above sequence happens, Vijay is over the top in a unique way for an Antony starrer, something I particularly enjoy in his films. thimiru pudichavan, Kodiyil Oruvanand of course, pitching, But, from there the film goes downhill.
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Truth is clearly not an ordinary body of Admiral General Hafaz Aladdin Dictator, and once he climbs the social ladder, he is the only one who can bring himself back down. But in keeping with the tradition of Tamil cinema’s toxic relationship of heroes with Robin Hood syndrome, Sathya decided to use his wealth to provide basic necessities to the poor at subsidized prices. He even coins the term ‘Bikili’ for the rich people who survive based on the hard work of the poor; This clearly makes him ‘anti Bikili’.
A still from ‘Pichikaran 2’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Together Pichaikaran 2, Vijay Antony took over the responsibility of playing the role of chief, editor, music director, and directing duties for the first time. It is the acting part where he shines the most. He brings contrast between the two characters he plays – Vijay is a money-minded businessman who reaches for a sanitiser dispenser after holding his dead father’s hands, while Sathya kisses the feet of a child, for which He always wanted to. There. But the script doesn’t give him a chance to do much. The idea of replacing a rich man with a poor man is anything but new – we’ve seen MGR do it Enga Veettu Pillaisince the days of rajinikanth badge, athisya piravi, Uzhaippali Even more Shivaji, It’s one of the oldest tropes of double-action movies, and what baffles me more is the shockingly simple treatment.
There are moments like just before the interval and when Sathya calls on the Chief Minister to uphold justice, which feels like those collective moments we loved pitching, But they are few and far between, and by the time he announces an anti-Biki mall where soap can be found for Rs 3, a toothbrush for Rs 7 and a real house for Rs 23,000, you skip the film entirely. . So much so that you actually don’t mind the shoddy VFX shot of a helicopter unloading a massive piece of fabric from the top of a building to unveil an entire mall.
The songs are forgettable, the characters other than Vijay Antony are forgettable, the action isn’t particularly great, and even the humor that worked well in the first film falls flat here despite the presence of Yogi Babu. For a man who has the power to direct the government, it seems strange that he would not use that power to find his missing sister. But such logical issues are the least Pichaikaran 2is concerned about. This average debut aside, the Vijay Antony directorial clearly has the potential to do more and that is something we can look forward to. As far as this film is concerned, its insurmountable despair shatters all faith.
Pichaikaran 2 is now running in theaters