Sukumar’s ultra-long ‘Pushpa: The Rule’ is a solid series of mass scenes that works best when Allu Arjun and Fahadh Faasil are playing cat-and-mouse

Once the Fahadh character moves out to make way for a new set of villains, the film’s energy drops. The last hour appears interminable. The new villains are generic and unmemorable, and the film becomes all about Pushpa Pushpa Pushpa. The rest of this review may have spoilers, so read/watch at your own discretion.

The first installment of Pushpa, written and directed by Sukumar, was based on one external narrative and one internal narrative. The external journey of the protagonist, played by Allu Arjun in a National Award-winning performance, was a meticulously detailed account of how a “coolie” rose up the ranks of a red sandalwood-smuggling syndicate, making deals with various people from the criminal empire. The second journey, the internal journey, was about Pushpa being the bastard son of a local bigshot, and how he was constantly battling the angst that he did not have a legitimate “father’s name”. These two narratives came together spectacularly in the last half-hour, with the entrance of the psychotic cop played by Fahadh Faasil, named Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat. He became a part of both the external and the internal journeys, by setting out to end Pushpa’s criminal activities and also by questioning his identity.

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