Vikram Review… women’s depiction was quite shocking

Year: 2022
Genre: Business, Investigation, Crime, Chase, Thriller, Action
Cast: Kamal Haasan, Vijay Sethupathi, Fahadh Faasil, Narain, Kalidas Jayaram, Chemban Vinod Jose, Gayathrie Shankar, Elango Kumaravel, Jaffer Sadiq, Hareesh Peradi, Ramesh Thilak, Suriya, Arjun Das, Harish Uthaman, Dheena
Director: Lokesh Kanagaraj
Writer: Lokesh Kanagaraj
Cinematographer: Girish Gangadharan
Summary: A high-skilled investigation team has been hired to track down a group of masked men responsible for several deaths

Overall Rating: Beignets
Soooooo…Vikram is finally here after many many many views and re-views of the teaser and trailer. It was a superb production, no doubt about that! Great to see a splendid cast all working hard to deliver such a unique movie.
Sentiments aside, Vikram was a distant reflection of Lokesh Kanagaraj’s movie “Master”. Overall, it was half sublime and half ok
~Yours To Explore~

Delicious
—We just want to stand up and clap for Girish Gangadharan.
Grandiose photography, sir! We were blown away by the attention to the smallest details and using a camera robot for the fighting scenes, I mean, we were in total awe 🥳 Impeccable!
—Have to give it up to the casting team because Vikram was an assembly of excellent actors: You have Vijay Sethupathi (playing a villain), Fahadh Faasil (playing the investigator), Narain (playing Inspector Bejoy), Chemban Vinod Jose (playing a government officer), plus the guest appearance actors 😉
Annddddd let’s not forget Agent Tina (Vasanthi) who was a mind-blowing surprise and Jaffer Sadiq (playing one of the villain’s men) was unforgettable
—Including elements from Lokesh Kanagaraj’s movie “Kaithi” was very thrilling and helped situate Vikram’s plot. Matter of fact, to better understand the film, you need to have watched Kaithi, otherwise, you will miss a lot on the scenario.
As expected, Vikram was saturated with mega-action, we spotted terrific fighting moves that made us go “Wow!”
—Additionally, we appreciated the lessons passed across, one good line that stuck with us was when one of the characters said “Why did you come to me? Because of the ideology, whomever we killed is not a murder, it’s a statement, we cleaned the crap [drugs] out of our society…
Only then tomorrow, the thug who is even considering starting a drug business should tremble in fear. One man’s terrorism is another man’s revolution”.
This declaration answered the question people always ask about the futile efforts of destroying drug empires knowing a stronger one will rise again tomorrow
—The closing scenes were dynamite!!!!! We can’t disclose more than that but we guarantee you will be delighted

Bland
—Okay, as exhilarating as Vikram was, let’s put sentiments aside to really dig into the screenplay. Pre-intermission, there were lots of details to digest at once; the plot was going very fast without a good sense of purpose.
Yes, the investigating team was chasing the masked men but so many characters came and left within seconds that the story was hard to follow. Only after the intermission that the momentum became steady and we got the whole picture
—The depiction of women in Vikram was quite shocking. Gayatri (Gayathrie Shankar), Prabhanjan’s wife, and the villain’s three wives all appeared like they were simply ‘fooled’ by love without a sense of intellect or wisdom.
The men in Vikram were edgy and sharp, whereas the women (apart from agent Tina) were just ‘there’, not using logic.
Who agrees to marry a man you know nothing about, not even his profession? Prabhanjan’s wife was just a wife, clueless about the state of affairs in her own house.
The villain’s wives, who at least knew their husband’s work, were mainly portrayed as lustful beings.
Moreover, making a piece of music out of a woman moaning in the brothel scene was very demeaning😱😱
—Some of the visual effects didn’t turn out well and a few images were a bit grainy
—Vikram had many similarities with the movie ‘Master‘; Vijay Sethupathi reprised his role as a drug lord while Kamal Haasan took on John Durairaj’s aspect notably with the excessive drinking and the dance sequence. Both movies ended with fighting scenes in a factory