Kanchana 2

7/4/2015

In a way, the Muni films are like the Fast & Furious franchise, initially dismissed as something appealing only to a particular group of people but starting to gain increased acceptance among the paying audiences and even critics. Yes, they are silly, over-the-top, over-long and loud (both literally and filmmaking-wise) but there is also some fun in the whole enterprise, which manages to pack in the masala movie must-haves — comedy, action, thrills and sentiment — quite satisfactorily. Kanchana-2 contains everything that we have seen in Kanchana and more. There is Raghava (Lawrence in comic mode), who is scared of ghosts and goes to extreme lengths (his bedroom resembles a tantric's abode and he even has a watchman in his loo) to protect himself, much to the chagrin of his mother (Kovai