Vetri Maaran tries to stuff too much into ‘Viduthalai – 2’, which ends up a noble effort rather than an interesting film

The points that Vetri  Maaran makes are sickle-sharp. But these points do not come together coherently in a cinematic form, because the film is extraordinarily dialogue-heavy.

Taken together, Vetri Maaran’s two Viduthalai films are certainly some kind of achievement. Until now, the two-parter films we have had in India (or maybe even the world) have all been in the fantasy / history zone. This may be the first time a socio-political movie is being served in two installments. Part 1 was set in 1987, in southern Tamil Nadu, and it was about a newbie cop named Kumaresan, played by Soori. Like us, he was the outsider to police life, and through his eyes, we saw police life like we had rarely seen, from bathrooms to kitchens, from ego wars and punishments to hierarchies and the willingness to go to any extreme to get the job done. Viduthalai – Part 1 operated at a fairly simplistic good-versus-bad level. The “bad guys” are the cops, the special task force set up to capture the leaders of a rebel group named Makkal Padai.

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