Film: Vishwaroop II (Hindi)
Cast: Kamal Haasan, Andrea Jeremiah, Pooja Kumar, Shekhar Kapur, Rahul Bose, Jaideep Ahlawat, Waheeda Rahman
Direction: Kamal Haasan
Genre: Spy-Thriller, Action-Drama
Duration: 2 hours, 45 minutes
Critic's Rating: 2/5
Story:
Vishwaroop 2, the Hindi version of the Tamil Vishwaroopam II, and a follow-up to 2013’s Vishwaroopam/Vishwaroop, continues the story of RAW agent Wisam Ahmad Kashmiri (Kamal Haasan) and his fight against Al Qaeda terrorist Omar (Rahul Bose). This time, Omar and his henchmen are out for revenge against Wisam while also planning bomb blasts in London and Delhi.
But, this time Wis is not alone. He is accompanied by his wife and nuclear oncologist Nirupama (Pooja Kumar) and his protegee Ashmita (Andrea Jeremiah).
Review:
Vishwaroop 2 spends its first half mostly in recounting what happened in Part 1, making it a drag for those who have already seen the film. If the point of the film was to establish that a 63-year-old Kamal Haasan is still capable of kicking some butts and perhaps making love on screen, then they have failed miserably.
There's no questioning that he is one of the most powerful screen performers we have today but he simply isn't cut out at this age for a film so nauseatingly high on action. When the lead actor himself looks a misfit in the film, you know it's not going to be a smooth-ride.
The naive attempts at infusing romance and emotion into Wis's character is one of the most fatal things they could have done to the film. The lovemaking scene between Wis and Nirupama looks forced and only makes you cringe.
The women in the film are mere props to Wisam. Ashmita’s constant effort to imply that she is romantically involved with Wisam just gets on your nerves after a point of time. Pooja Kumar looks stunning but falls flat when it comes to delivering emotional scenes.
The plot carelessly transits continents and time zone, without giving the audience much time to acclimatize. As a result, the film feels in-coherent and a bit too indulgent. The subtle mention of Islamophobia gets somewhere lost in the over-the-top and loud superficiality of the storyline and mundane action sequences.
Vishwaroop 2 boasts of some great cameos by Shekhar Kapur, Waheeda Rahman and Jaideep Ahlawat but they are so good in whatever little screen-time they have got that sometimes you feel they are wasted in the film. The spy-thriller doesn't rely much on jingoism, though, which is a relief.
Verdict: Avoid, Vishwaroop 2.
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