Hindustani 2 Movie Cast/ Actors: Kamal Haasan as Veerasekaran Senapathy / Indian, Siddharth as Chitra Aravindhan, Rakul Preet Singh as Disha, S. J. Suryah as Sakala Kala Vallavan, Bobby Simha as Pramod, Vivek as a CBI officer, Priya Bhavani Shankar as Aarthi, Brahmanandam, Nedumudi Venu as Inspector Krishnaswamy, Jagan as Thambesh, Gulshan Grover as Amit Agarwal
Hindustani 2 Movie Director: S. Shankar
Hindustani 2 Movie Release Date: July 12, 2024
Hindustani 2 Movie Available On: Theatrical Release and (likely to be released on OTT Platform Netflix)
Hindustani 2 Movie Released/ Available In Languages: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu
Hindustani 2 Movie Runtime: 180 Minutes
Hindustani 2 Movie Critic Review:
Ideally, this should be the shortest review ever and should read:
Kamal Hassan Returns.
I wish he hadn’t.
Here’s why.
Kamal Hassan and director S Shankar are seriously caught in a time warp, an indulgent one at that.
In 1996, violent vigilantism and special effects like turning into a large reptile, were relatively new cinematic experiences.
28 years later, they are overcooked relics.
Chitra Varadharanjan (Siddharth), named because of a back story of how his mother had climbed more than 3,000 steps to Tirupati Balaji on her knees for him, heads a group of like- minded, hot-headed youngsters who call themselves Barking Dogs. They lead protests and put out animated videos of the common man breaking under an unjust and corrupt system. With misery peaking, Chitra and Barking Dogs reach out to and seek the return of Hindustani (Kamal Hassan), the cunning and deadly vigilante who is wanted in India.
Where is Hindustani?
Cut to Taiwan. A flamboyant Vijay Mallya-like boss (Gulshan Grover) is getting his new calendar shot with a bevy of underclad girls. Parties, girls, choppers, yacht, even a bejewelled tortoise that walks on the bare skin of a giggly girl. Astronomical unpaid loans, impoverished employees, a string of court cases, all left behind in India.
Skilled in varma kala where the fingers touch the right spot on a victim’s body to stun him before leaving him dead, Hindustani enters. Boss’ army of bodyguards go down like flies. Boss turns effeminate before he’s history.
After outwitting the cops who’ve come to arrest him at the airport, Hindustani returns to India. Two movements run parallel. Millions of social media followers, fascinated by the fight against corruption, turn on their corrupt parents, uncles, neighbours and hand them over to the authorities. Meanwhile, Hindustani leaves a trail of bodies – in Gujarat, Punjab, all over India. There’s a whole sequence of a rich Gujarati industrialist (Zakir Hussain) dripping gold, corruption and cruelty, who is turned into a horse by Hindustani before he gallops, gallops, bleeds, neighs and jumps off to his death.
Shankar who is also the writer, is so outdated with his comic sense, and Kamal Hassan is so puffed with overconfidence that the sequel has Hindustani speaking incomprehensibly in a strange slow voice in Tamil, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Punjabi. Amitabh Bachchan had tried a voice change decades ago and flopped in the original Agneepath (1990). Kamal worsens it with unpleasant prosthetics while Shankar’s idea of action is to follow every varma kala move with visuals of what it does to the organs inside the victim.
You barely notice Aniruddh’s music or Ravi Varman’s cinematography – veteran names that are lost in Shankar’s unappealing maze. Editor Sreekar Prasad must’ve dozed off as most of the audience will with Hindustani plodding on for over three hours. Even the much-awaited end is not a relief as Kamal promises to return with Hindustani 3 in 2025.
I seriously wish he wouldn’t.
Hindustani 2 Movie – Watch Or Not?: Even a Kamal Haasan fan will squirm through the Hindi version.
Hindustani 2 Movie Review Score Rating: 1.5 out of 5 (i.e. 1.5/5)
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