Soodhu Kavvum 2 Review – A Tiresome Experience in the name of Sequel!
Soodhu Kavvum 2 Review – A Tiresome Experience in the name of Sequel!
Soodhu Kavvum 2 Review – A Tiresome Experience in the name of Sequel!
Ashwin Ram
Soodhu Kavvum 2 is a sequel to the 2013 film in which Vijay Sethupathi played the lead role. This political crime comedy drama stars Mirchi Shiva in the lead role and it is directed by S.J. Arjun.
Premise:
Mirchi Shiva gets released from jail after serving punishment for a bank theft. He finds out that Karunakaran who is the current finance minister is the reason behind his imaginary girlfriend’s death (Interval Sequence of Part 1) and seeks revenge.
Writing/ Direction:
Can’t write it off as a pointless sequel, at the same time there isn’t really a big necessity to make it as well. The base structure of the story and the political links are written decently, developed in a ridiculous manner. Multiple plots form this screenplay driven flick, the dots connected convincingly, but a big blunder in the way this one flows. Zero originality, making a sequel means continuing from where the previous outing ended, the references are usually kept to add some flavour, this one heavily relies on the first part, right from the scratch till the end. The comedy miserably fails to click, the major drawback is the artists try hard to evoke laughter rather than going with the flow which in turn becomes an irritation. Also, the intent is not only dark comedy, certain sequences attempt to deliver some silly slapstick humour too. There isn’t a single frame without an alcohol bottle in the movie, filled with such outdated jokes about booze. The snake element was bothersome from the beginning, the film invests so much time on that too, keeping it as the biggest payoff at the end shows the poor decision making skills of the director. The political portions are somewhat better, that too if we can adapt to the no-brainer aspect of it.
Performances:
Barring the replica attempt of the first part, there is enough scope for Mirchi Shiva to score, but his humour is very outdated and barely offers any fun. The sidekicks are extreme annoyance here, the issue is not because they are unknown faces, the artists who played similar roles in the previous instalment were also unpopular back then, but they had in-built talents powered by hilarious situations, which is lacking big time here. Karunakaran gets a better role than the others and he has done a fine job. Yog Japee and Karate Karthi have scenes in the dark-comedy zone, but fails to work out and a few moments are disgusting as well.
Technicalities:
Not just the subject and character behavior, even music is a wannabe of the first part. Lazy work for both the songs and background score as it is presented by tweaking the tunes of part one a little, maybe it’s the demand from the producer or director. Tidy camera work, nothing exceptional yet the cinematographer has delivered what is best for the genre. Considering the engagement of the film, the editor could have trimmed accordingly, at least the excessive lags in every scene could have been scissored.
Bottomline
There was a potential in the script to be enthusiastic, but resulting in tedious boredom. The lack of freshness in the treatment and cheap thought-process to whitewash the viewers by replicating the prequel deteriorates it further.
Rating – 2/ 5
