Akilan and his wife are RAW agents. They have supposedly killed the villain Love. In return the gang members kill the hero's wife. The enraged hero hunts and kills each and every member of the gang to avenge for his wife's demise. This happened in the past, Akilan is now in exile as the agency suspended him for his sadistic approach towards criminals resulting in deaths.
In the present the Indian Embassy is being attacked by an old man who eventually dies after killing all the security guards. When cops investigate, they find the "heart" symbol tattooed on the man's neck, guessing this could be Love s return the agency thinks only Akilan can hunt him down as he and his wife only have seen Love. The agency goes to Akilan for help who insults them in the beginning but when he comes to know about the attack and the tattoo he is curious because he is sure he had killed Love in the past. After watching the footage that was recorded by the CCTV cameras he discovers that the old man used an in haler before attacking the guards. He suspects that must be some kind of an enhancing drug. Now Akilan along with another RAW agent Ayushi pursues this person who is behind the attack.Is this person really Love or is it an imposter ? what is he upto? What is in the inhaler ?
This seems like an interesting plot if you read it. But, but... when you watch this on the screen its not that engaging. There were definitely some plus in the movie but I feel the story and how it s executed on screen is far more important than anything else. The director has totally messed up with the later half.
" + "
1.Vikram
2.Music
3.Camera
4.Convincing description about the drug "speed"
5.Stunt sequence
6.Climax twist
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1.Love sequence between nayanthara and Vikram looked too filmy. To give an example, after killing love instead of driving to the pick up point Vikram takes another route and when nayanthara asks where he was going he says "I promised you that we will get married in 24 hours, but then we got busy with work now i still have 4 hours to fulfill my word.
Nayanthara says Every girl has at least 4 months to prepare for her wedding but I only 4 hours but its okay I ll adjust...I was Like damned what the heck!! I felt this kind of a romantic scene will be awesome if it came in a hollywood movie but this is a tamil movie which was trying to imitate the western culture some how the two factors didn't come out together well!
2."Twists" in the movie. The so called twists in the movie were so damned predictable! To name a couple of them,
Nayanthara gets shot in the head! and fell from a hill in the past but in the present she is found alive!! I knew this was coming but I was hoping the director to tell that she was actually love's gang member and the entire killing of love episode was staged to get the agency off his back or something like that butttt guess what happened?!?!! Nayanthara actually got a head shot fell off a hill but fortunately she was saved by tribal people who lived nearby.Now considering this isn't even a decent a twist to start with how can anyone survive a head shot ? and be in one piece after a fall from a hill ?
Next its said that Nayanthara has amnesia after that accident and Love takes her into his gang because she is an expert hacker . There is a scene in the present when love asks her to kill Akilan. At the exact moment when she seems to pull the trigger she points it at Love and says the drug "speed" helped her revive her memories. Now is that even a twist? I mean in how many movies have we seen something like this?
3.The entire movie looked so damn half baked! the movie takes place in malaysia there is even a scene where a character says malaysian police are very smart and they are the best and all that but right through the movie the cops seemed to be there only for screen presence. The director has shown them to be very stupid! I was expecting some sorta politics or some kinda trouble from the malaysian police in the movie but nothing serious actually happened..
That's it I was disappointed with the movie and I forced myself to sit through the movie. It was nothing special . I feel Vikram should choose his scripts more carefully. Feels bad to see all his efforts go in vain.
P.S. This is not a film review I am a fan of Vikram I was expecting a lot but it was down right disappointing, so ranting it here through this post! :(
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