I love Raghava Lawrence for his sheer shameless balls to make a Tamil horror movie series, and actually get away with it.
It has everything humour, gags, ghosts, exorcists, and even homophobia (in the case of this film). It is just very cleverly crafted comedy that masquerades as the scariest thing to hit Kollywood. He is one of the directors, who can make an entertaining horror comedy where many failed in this genre. There will be Muni4 as well and hoping Lawrence to come out the this ghost-taking-revenge template and make a different horror comedy film. And the ghost ridden Lawrence take revenge in the climax, which was quick. 2nd half drags a bit with a lengthy flashback. 1st half races to the interval with adequate amount of horror and humor scenes. The basic plot is the same but the performances were pretty good. Overall, Kanchana2 is a decent sequel to Kanchana, though there is no connection. Performance wise, Kanchana2 is a neat film. Others too performed according to their character.
Of course, kovai sarala took care of the comedy track along with Lawrence. And what a performer Nithya Menen is, she expressed a wide array of expressions and emotions in the 2nd half. We have seen Lawrence's acting capabilities before but the surprise package was Tapsee. Kanchana2 is loaded with some excellent performances. A cut here and there would have made the 2nd half more gripping. Runtime of 160 minutes seemed a bit lengthy, especially in the 2nd half. The night scenes were well shot and color tone maintained gave a dark feeling, perfectly suited for a horror film.
BGM gave that eerie feeling and helped in getting into the scene. 2 fast numbers and 2 melodious songs were good but a romantic song in 2nd half's flashback was a speed breaker. Overall, Kanchana2 is a decent revamp of Kanchana's script with new cast and technicalities.Įverything has to be in sync in a horror film to give a thrilling feeling. But the 2nd half dragged a bit with a lengthy flashback and revenge scenes. Though some scenes were predictable, they were professionally scripted. Perfectly written situational humor and horror sequences. But I liked the way he planned the events. Screenplay by Lawrence was too good, though is lagged in the 2nd half, we will come to that in a moment. 2nd half is more focussed on the ghost bullying everybody and humor extracted from it. There is an abundant amount of humor all over the movie, especially in the most serious scenes, which makes the movie more entertaining. There are a bit of chills and thrills in the 1st half but its more a flashback and a revenge oriented 2nd half. This is what we are seeing in all ghost films past 100 years. Someone gets killed, they become ghost, haunt somebody, get into their body, bully them and take revenge on the actual culprits. Kanchana2 is similar to Kanchana in its basic plot. Actor Lawrence was quite good but director Lawrence could have been more innovative with the basic script, which was way too predictable but the execution was bang on target. There are only subtle differences but the entertainment factor was high and expectations were sky rocketing. After giving 2 decent horror comedy entertainers, Lawrence is back with Kanchana2, which is more or less based on the same template as Muni and Kanchana.
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