Muzhusa senjittu vaa.” No, you don’t need the translation. She yells, “ Kurukka kurukka vandhu kanakku sollaadhe. I laughed after one of Pechi’s men gives her a status report about the killing she’s ordered, that there’s still one man standing. There’s a lot of flavourful dialogue (S Ramakrishnan, Brinda Sarathy). Is that a compliment? The charade around Durai’s health has its moments. She’s the one the title comes from.Īlso Read: Baradwaj Rangan’s Review of Vada Chennai She brandishes a sickle and gets into the thick of action. Still, I liked it that Pechi isn’t like Padayappa’s Neelambari, all schemes and talk. Had the rest of the film been written this way, Sandakozhi 2 might have been the Thevar Magan of potboilers. It’s a bit regressive, and it involves the removal of the thali she’s been refusing to remove - but I’m just talking about the writing, the imagination in the scene.
With good writing, Pechi could have really become something - for even here, she gets one of the most inventive masala moments I have seen in a while. The twist is that the villain is a woman, Pechi (Varalaxmi Sarathkumar). All Lingusamy does is transform the broad beats of a classic drama into a masala entertainer. He isn’t asked to choose between two women either. He likes the heat and dust of his hometown, so on the way from the airport, he does “mass” things like switch off the AC and lower the windows. He isn’t exactly remaking Bharathan’s film, for Balu doesn’t want to run back to wherever he’s from. And the heroine, Sembaruthi (Keerthy Suresh), gets to spoof the line: “ Poi pulla kuttigala padikka vainga da.” Lingusamy is on to something here.
A song throws up a reference to “ mukkulathor”, and a local festival plays a major part in the proceedings. Balu’s father, Durai (Rajkiran), is a Sivaji Ganesan-like headman. Balu (Vishal) strides into southern Tamil Nadu the way the Kamal Haasan character did in the earlier film - only, Balu takes a flight, and he slips past the people who’ve gathered outside, with drums and trumpets. There’s a Thevar Magan hangover in N Lingusamy’s Sandakozhi 2 (Fightercock). Cast: Vishal, Keerthi Suresh, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar
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