Vishwaroopam 2 (2018)

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Director: Kamal Haasan

Starring: Kamal Haasan, Rahul Bose, Shekhar Kapur, Pooja Kumar

Genre: Action, Drama

Released on: 09 Aug 2018

Writer: Kamal Haasan, Atul Tiwari (hindi dialogue)

IMDB Rating: N/A/10 (N/A Votes)

Duration: 125 min

Synopsis: Wizam attempts to save the nation from warrior Omar.
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Vishwaroop 2 Story: A prequel as well as sequel to the events that transpired in Vishwaroop (2013), this film continues the story of Indian spy Wisam (Kamal Hassan) and his crusade against Al Qaeda terrorist Omar (Rahul Bose). This time, Omar and his henchmen are out to exact revenge from Wisam and his friends, while planning bomb threats in London and Delhi.

Vishwaroop 2 Review: Complex, non-linear narratives are always a tricky proposition in cinema. Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroop 2, adopts a unique screenplay that tries to tell a story that presents both, before and after, scenarios of the original Vishwaroop movie. So, the sequel presents a continuation of the original story, as well as plot points that explain the first film’s scenes. The result of this approach is a long drawn film that doesn’t always feel coherent. Not only is the film indulgent, it’s also a bit too tedious, despite it’s slick execution.

Vishwaroop 2 is a spy thriller and it serves up some good genre aspects. The combat scenes, the stunts and the props all look like they belong to a big-ticket Hollywood film. But for all it’s frills, the film feels too stretched. A lot of the dialogue-heavy scenes featuring Shekhar Kapur and Anant Mahadevan don’t really make the cut. There are several flashbacks that go back, to the first film’s premise of Rahul Bose as the terrorist leader in Afghanistan. These scenes look great with the American army and the desert combat sequences, but they don’t really add any weight to the story at hand.

As you would expect from a mainstream masala movie, there’s dollops of action with good amounts of comedy, romance and drama thrown in too. But each new subplot just adds to the confusion. It also doesn’t help that the film goes a little too over-the-top with the an underwater action sequence, as well as the climactic, gravity-defying fight.

Kamal Haasan as the lead man is in top form. He’s great in the dialogue driven scenes, but moments that feature a lot of action and stunts, just don’t look all that convincing. Pooja Kumar and Andrea Jeremiah as the film’s heroines have good roles and the two actresses perform really well. But the same can’t be said of the antagonists Rahul Bose and Jaideep Ahlawat, who end up being caricatures of evil terrorists.

Vishwaroop 2 is a classic example of overkill. This multi-lingual film has been shot in both Hindi and Tamil. And despite having some genuinely good moments, the film tries to put forth a little too much, a little too quickly.
The derring-do doings of RAW agent Major Wisam Ahmad Kashmiri aka Vis were mostly entertaining in a comic-book way in Vishwaroopam part one.

Part 2, sadly, is an incoherent mess.

It opens with a battered, stitched-up Vis (Kamal) being transported in an airplane with two familiar lovelies Nirupama (Kumar) and Ashmita (Jeremiah) on either side. The former is his wife; the latter is a clear case of wishful thinking, always coming on heavily flirtatious, making you wonder just what this threesome is up to.

The plot is choppy, carelessly hopping continents (India, US, Afghanistan) and time zones. When the characters—spooks and traitors, forgetful mothers and sentimental sons, and pretty women making up to the great spymaster— are not killing each other, either via hand-to-hand combat, knives and guns, they are busy flitting about in all manner of transport, and deploying weapons. Helicopters are whirring away, missiles are being launched, grenades are being flung, and Vis, armed and dangerous, is on top of everything, saving India’s capital from being bombed out of existence.

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The best spy thrillers give us plenty of high-octane action, colourful characters who blur the line between heroes and villains, and athletic male and female leads equally capable of kicking serious butt. No such luck with Vis and gang, most of whom are back, reprising their roles. Jeremiah is made to high-step archly around hotel rooms, looking for bugs (in one of the several unintentionally hilarious scenes which feature her) and has only one sequence in which she shows off her martial skills; Kumar, who is described several times as a ‘nuclear oncologist’, is all coy and coquettish.

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None of the others fare much better. Shekhar Kapur and Anant Mahadevan, both playing senior backroom boys who give orders to the guys in the field, add to the hilarity quotient. Rahul Bose re-appears as the man from Al Qaeda, who gets to scowl and throw about such dialogue as ‘yahaan gadaaron ko takht nahin taaboot diya jaata hai’. Jaideep Ahlawat, as the guy with the hand on the trigger, is here too: all these parts are sloppy. About the only one who has a few good moments is Waheeda Rahman as an elderly woman struggling with Alzheimer’s disease: her grace is immense, and lights up her scenes.
That leaves Kamal Haasan, who has co-written, directed and produced the film, as the patriotic RAW agent, to do all the heavy lifting. In the first edition, the veteran star-actor led from the front: here the ‘dirty soldier turned bloody espionage agent’ is all thundery lines like ‘main mazhab nahin mulk ke liye khoon bahaata hoon’. But even he can’t rise above the shockingly inept script, which he rescues only in a few places, when his trademark intelligent, wry self-awareness manages to kick in. The rest can be safely ignored.
Vishwaroopam 2 is Kamal Haasan’s first release after his plunge into politics, but that’s not a detail you’re likely to forget once you step into this film. Even before the opening credits start rolling, we’re shown a montage of Kamal, the politician announcing this entry and the setting up of his party, the Makkal Needhi Mayyam. Through the montage, we see images of him speaking across the State, addressing a sea of people, while fondly holding a dozen smiling babies, propaganda style.

It feels like the star (also the film’s director) is just getting his political promotions/intent out of the way so we can get started on a big, loud spy thriller. But politics is never off the table in a Kamal film, and that’s much the case with Vishwaroopam 2 as well. The film takes off (literally) from where we last left, with Wisam Ahmad Kashmiri (Kamal Haasan) and his team flying to the UK, after a tipoff that would lead him to Omar (Rahul Bose) and other terrorists. Like the first film, the gaps in the story are filled using recurring flashbacks, which explain details like how Wisam first lands the Al Qaeda job, his association with Ashmita (Andrea Jeremiah), and how he learnt his first Kathak lesson.

There’s also a nice Wikipedia lesson about a shipwreck off England’s coast that continues to hold tonnes of explosives. On his personal side, we learn more about Wisam’s blooming love story with wife Nirupama (Pooja Kumar with a more tolerable accent) his mother who has Alzheimer’s (signifying the motherland we’re forgetting?) and his ‘illegitimate father’. Much of the film pans out in the form of one long explanation to clear all the doubts we were left with after the first film. So when the action (and the bombs) shifts to India, we feel it will finally become the thriller we were expecting.

No such luck here either.

Too dialogue-heavy

The budgets seem to have shrunk since the first instalment and that has affected the quality of the action set pieces. Car crashes in the UK countryside and an underwater fist fight sounds much better than it looks on screen and the film is just too dialogue-heavy for an action thriller.

But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its moments.

There’s a whistle-worthy scene where Wisam (or was it Kamal, the politician?) confronts a racist who questions the loyalty of an Indian Muslim. And later, when a Hindu traitor shoots himself, his blood splatters to form the shape of the Indian map. Wisam is also seen teaching Omar how to write Tamil…though he uses a bullet as his pen. ‘Aaytha Ezhuthu’, he calls it, in true Kamal style.

One of the major reasons for the success of the first film was the villain played by Rahul Bose. Rarely do we find a negative character given so much time in a big commercial film, and that’s why we were able to humanise the terrorist who wanted to blow up the world. A lot of that is also because the film had the luxury to do so, given the fact that it was a two-parter.

Yet in the sequel, it’s almost shocking to see how little is done with a character that was built up so much. We expected Omar to be a tidal wave. What we get, instead, is barely a ripple.

amal Haasan was embroiled in a whirlwind of emotions back in 2013 during the release of his pet project Vishwaroopam. The film, as we all know, was banned in Tamil Nadu by the then-Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who feared violence upon its release.

With his unrelenting love for art, Kamal made sure Vishwaroopam released and the rest was history. It was appreciated for its intriguing story, sleek screenplay and top-class performances. Five years later, its sequel Vishwaroopam 2 hit the screens today.

Unfortunately, the sequel is no match for Vishwaroopam. For all the good reasons, the first installment seemed like it was made with utmost concentration, which was lacking in the second part. The lead characters Wisam Ahmed Kashmiri (Kamal Haasan), Nirupama (Pooja Kumar), Ashmita (Andrea Jeremiah) and Colonel Jagannath (Shekhar Kapur) simply roam around diffusing bombs in London and India.

Vishwaroopam 2 opens with a bruised Kamal Haasan embarking on a journey with his partners to nab most-wanted terrorists Omar Qureshi (Rahul Bose) and Salim (Jaideep Ahlawat). The rest of the plot is basically a cat-and-mouse game between Wisam and Omar. In other words, it is just a competition between the two on who outdoes the other one.

The first part was all class in writing and execution. But, in the second part, Kamal Haasan falters with the screenplay. The story goes back and forth and we see visuals (events) from Vishwaroopam. The proceedings in the second film bear explanation on why Wisam did what he had to do in the first part.

Be it the story or the action sequences, Vishwaoopam was on par with Hollywood standards. But, Vishwaroopam 2 is an Indianised version of a Holly spy-thriller with more drama, romance, a forgetful mother (the brilliant Waheeda Rahman) and sentimental people.

In a spy-thriller, all you expect is people indulging in top-notch action sequences featuring both men and women. Wisam and gang are reduced to walking around shooting grenades or in combat with knives and guns. There is nothing spectacular about the stunt sequences, which were a major advantage in the first part.

When Kamal Haasan said we'd explore more about Ashmita's character in Vishwaroopam 2, it was quite obvious that she'd have a fitting backstory. Not just Ashmita's backstory, all the flashback portions lacked the much-need punch.

In the first half of Vishwaroopam 2, we are forced to watch the most uninteresting catfight of sorts between Pooja Kumar and Andrea, which was totally uncalled for in a thriller like this.

There are a lot of moments in the movie which act as speed breakers in a story which in itself moves at a snail's pace. For example, the scene in which Pooja Kumar seduces Kamal Haasan feels forced and unwarranted.

In an inept script like this, it is Kamal Haasan who needs to rise above the flaws. He does succeed at it effortlessly. Be it his quick wit or dialogues that take digs at politicians, he scores brownie points. But, as a writer, this could probably be one of the crudest scripts that Kamal has churned out. Vishwaroopam 2 is definitely not his best work, considering his high standards.

Waheeda Rahman as Wisam's mother brings elegance and grace to the screen. The scenes involving her and Kamal Haasan are a delight to watch. But they end up diluting a film of this genre, a trait typical to regional spy-thrillers.

Composer Ghibran and sound designer Kunal Rajan are the heroes of Vishwaroopam 2. The cinematography by Shamdat and Sanu is quite impressive, especially the underwater sequences.

On the whole, Vishwaroopam 2 is a story that is let down by the shoddy screenplay. Even a star performer like Kamal Haasan couldn't save the audience from this mess.Add that to particularly tacky production design and uninspiring visuals, you realise that it’s easy for someone to mistake the first part as the newer film. By the end of Vishwaroopam 2, we’ve seen so many bombs being planted, only for them to be defused. What’s another 100 more?
If Kamal Haasan's Vishwaroopam 2 is to be one of his last films before he plunges full time into politics, it is, by no means, anywhere close to being a vote clincher. Haasan, who has written and directed the latest thriller – hardly thrilling though – has managed to produce a messy, often incoherent movie, the only motive of which is to further his political journey (or so it appears), which began some months ago. And, to use a cliché, he leaves no stone unturned to talk about his patriotism and hatred for traitors.

Vishwaroopam 2 rolls exactly from the point where the first part ended. Wisam Ahmed Kashmiri (Haasan) is an over-enthusiastic Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer, who after having saved New York from going up in flames, sets off to tackle what is billed as “the biggest non-nuclear explosion in the world”.

Rahul Bose's Omar Quereshi returns as a mastermind terrorist allowing Haasan's exploits to get even bloodier. The path is littered with bodies and betrayal, and seemingly innocent men turn dirty and dangerous.

With Anant Mahadevan, a fascinating actor, and an equally talented Shekar Kapoor made to look like inane caricatures, Wisam has the entire playing field all to himself. His wife, Nirupama (Puja Kumar), who has a fancy sounding title, Nuclear Oncologist, and fellow RAW agent, Ashmita (Andrea Jeremiah), provide the glamour, and it may seem incredulous that Kashmiri and Nirupama are also on another mission: that to consummate their marriage, and this in the middle of the intrigue and action.

Stranger by far is the fact that a supposedly dangerous assignment is allowed to degenerate into sheer frivolity. While Nirupama looks desperate to keep her husband away from the clutches of Ashmita, the RAW operative appears more interested in getting her hands on him than on the explosives. Really, I fail to understand how a brilliant actor like Haasan (who can forget him in Nayagan, for instance) could slip into such a shoddy, convoluted sequel, which fails to put its point across. A rank bad effort that is eminently avoidable.

Rating: 1.5/5



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