The audience simply assumes her dead and is expecting to see how Kabali is going to avenge her death. However, these flashes also give us little connect to her character.
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But doesn’t happen.Ĥ) Finding Apte : When the movie starts off, it’s great the way Apte’s character comes in quick flashes giving us the hint of what has happened. The two of them uniting to bring down the villain’s empire would have been fantastic to watch. I was hoping to see Yogi come in with her contacts and network to add strength to Kabali. Her character had so much weight that could have been brought in but is simply left getting socked in the face. There is not one assassin worthy thing she ever does in the movie after that. She becomes a character who can’t fathom how people get from Malaysia to Chennai, flying seems alien to her. She becomes a girl who can handle a gun but must do it while saying “appa” three times in each of her sentence. Soon after that, everything ubercool about her character goes out the window. Everything is fine till the moment they announce to the audience that she is his daughter. She’s introduced as this ubercool assassin who is hired to kill Kabali. If you are laughing at the villain (who is being super-serious), it’s not going to work, is it? Tony Lee just came across too weak and didn’t provide the kingpin punch the film desperately needed.ģ) The bumbling assassin : Dhansika, who plays Kabali’s daughter (Yogi) comes across initially as a solid character. The big problem was this was during the big climax. You really need to switch to looking at the subtitles because you can’t understand jack! At one point the concept and accent is so bad, you begin to laugh.
Especially when the Chinese-Malaysian starts speaking in Tamil. All the plot twists got repetitive too.Ģ) Foreign Villain : This was attempted in Lingaa as well. In effect, to balance the hero, there was no equal and opposite force. This was a cluster of bad guys with guns running around doing bad-guy things, each on their own. Remember how Raghuvaran held the film Baasha together in an incredibly evil manner? There was nothing of the sort here. I am not sure why that was but his villainy was very average and seemed to be more of a bad-guy businessman than a mob boss. Though there was a single big boss – Tony Lee played by Winston Chao, the acting was not very good. This may not have been a problem if it was led by one kingpin. Each one with the same exact attitude and personality. Unlike Lingaa, this film had so many things going for it, yet didn’t package into that awesome movie it could have become.ġ) No strong villain : The number of bad guys were too many in the film. The disappointment with the way this film turned out is because it had such huge potential. You know that his family was brutally taken down and the fade-in / fade-out from the current time to the past were concise and gave you a lot of the back-story without going into the details.Ĥ) The soundtrack : The heavy metal music sequences go very well with the whole movie. Fantastic opening sequence too.ģ) The flashback sequences : These were done nicely. Just like the second half of Padayappa, the bearded look really fits him damn well. This is a welcome change from the last couple of movies. There is no silly romancing with a heroine half his age and singing songs, trying to work dance moves that he can’t etc. Especially the driving over the guy on the sofa – super!Ģ) Kabali is old through most of the film : Rajni plays a guy close to his actual age. This is cool and some of the kills are pretty awesome. He’s not in it only for some misplaced sense of a greater good. He kills other bad guys and gang members but doesn’t harm regular folk.
1) Kabali is a bad guy : There is no middle ground here.
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