Hard-hitting hit list: My quick take on Kamal Hasan’s “Vikram-hitlist”
I wish I had a few more hours to my weekend, with so many good movies released simultaneously and I have to watch them all. The first choice to watch was the much-hyped and talked about movie “Vikram” which is directed by Lokesh, someone who is gaining a repute of being a blockbuster director. Mind you, Lokesh does not disappoint you here.
Vikram is based on a character with the same name who came in a 1986 spy movie starring Kamal Hassan and Dimple Kapadia. I am not sure if the present movie has anything to do with the 1986 movie. However, like the earlier movie which was probably the most expensive Tamil movie then and had a unique record of using computers for music recording, this movie too is mounted on a huge canvass and its music (especially the BGM) will haunt you.
The trailer of the movie had created a great hype and an intrigue amongst the audience as to ‘how three wonderful actors like Kamal, Fahad Fasil, and Vijay sethupathi, will fare in front of each other’. The plot starts with serial murders of cops who are following drug cases and surprisingly you will see our hero Kamal Hassan too getting bumped off. The case is handed over to an undercover cop played effortlessly by Fahad Faasil to identify these masked vigilantes who are on a head-hunting spree killing all drug-related guys. Vijay Sethupati plays a drug lord and a cartel king who manufactures and distributes drugs hence the obvious needle of suspicion is pointed toward this don. It is nice to see Kamal plays his age and plays a grandfather to an infant, whose son was an undercover cop (like DEA) who was murdered.
Though it's a Kamal Hassan's in-house production, the director has kept him away from the screen in the first half, it's a Fa-Fa and Vijay sethupathi show. But post-interval the ulaga nayakan enters the plot and it becomes an out-n-out Kamal show.
With the Hindi vs south Indian movie debate heating up presently, and movies like Pushpa, RRR, and KGF2 already proving their superiority now comes another blockbuster showing its class over Bollywood. It's a great testimony of how an ordinary tale can be presented and showcased in a grandiose way.
A few things which will resonate in your mind while watching this movie are a) its music b) action choreography c) cinematography and of course the performances of these stars. You will envy Kamal in this avatar where he dances, fights, and even makes you cry - take a bow, sir. On the other hand, Fahad and Vijay are too good in their roles. Even the side kicks are damn impressive (especially the lady playing nanny of kamal’s grandson).
It is touted as a director is creating his universe of characters, hence he introduces a new antagonist “Rolex” in the final scene, if so then we should gearup for a big treat. The stunts in this movie itself were ‘bigger’ than KGF2 (in KGF Rocky uses his ‘doddamma’ machine gun, here our hero graduates to an anti-aircraft machine gun 😁).
Overall it's a full-time pass movie with lots of paisa vasool dialogs and action, only place where kamal looks old and jaded is when he dances ‘pathala pathala’ (he could have avoided dancing). It is also said that Director Lokesh cross-connects and cross-references other movies thru songs and music, here too there is reference to his earlier movie ‘Kaithi’, however, I could enjoy the movie without knowing anything about Kaithi., (maybe now I will watch Kaithi)
Watch it, if you like mindless but well-choreographed action drama.
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