The Chennai Sharks team, years after their happy go-lucky days, re-unite to celebrate the marriage of one of their own. In the events leading to the marriage, they end up enrolling for a cricket tournament which puts an ugly twist to the planned wedding. To get their friend’s life back on track, Irony has the final say – They have to play another tournament to get a chance to make amends. Do they ‘still’ have it in them?!
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Language:
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Tamil
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Running Time:
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154 min
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Rating:
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U
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Release date:
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09 December 2016
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Directed by:
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Venkat Prabhu
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Produced by:
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S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
S. P. B. Charan
V. Rajalakshmi
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Written by:
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Venkat Prabhu
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Starring:
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Jai
Shiva Sundaram
Premgi Amaren
Aravind Akash
Nithin Sathya
Abhinay Vaddi
Ajay Raaj
Anjena Kirti
Ilavarasu
Vaibhav Reddy
Vijayalakshmi Agathiyan
Vijay Vasanth
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Music by:
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Yuvan Shankar Raja
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Shot by:
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Rajesh Yadav
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Editing by:
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Praveen K. L.
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Distributed by:
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Capital Film Works
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What’s Hot
- After elevating himself to make hero-centric films, Venkat Prabhu gets back to where he started and shows the pitch with a bunch of friends on it is still his territory and makes a mark yet again with an unpretentious & jolly good follow-up to his debut magic he made a decade ago
- One nice thing about the director is his uncanny knack of managing a sea of artistes and giving them all due screen space. Here, he does it to great effect with everyone contributing greatly to the frolic. The one-liners of Shiva (as Youtube Reviewer Naan Karthi :P) show how good he can be, when in form. Even veterans like Sachu, Santhana Barathy who come just for a few moments are let to make a mark
- Giving Shiva good company are Jai, Vaibhav (could have given his ‘hands-on-mush’ routine some rest), Arvind, Premgi, Vijay Vasanth, Ilavarasu & Mahat (in a surprising Oor Kaavalan role that clicks!);
- Funny dialogues are a main lifeline for the film & the jokes made around wives are silly & funny and don’t cross borders to give you a twinge; Badava Gopi’s commentary and the slick editing of the cricket scenes by Praveen go hand in hand to make you sit up for those scenes
- Yuvan Shankar Raja’s background score is stellar with an ear-catchy theme for the villain and a funky re-hash of the Aboorva Sagotharargal theme made famous differently in Chennai 28! The songs have a couple of foot-tapping numbers as well.
- It is a good break of sorts for cinematographer Rajesh Yadav who retains the style and simplicity of Sakthi Saravanan’s work in first part.
What’s Not
- The core of the film, the marriage of Raghu & Anu, gets entangled with the cricket and loses steam beyond a point. The good thing is the director gets that right and doesn’t give us an overdose of it as the film takes the lighter route to finish.
- The glorification of Bottle & Sarakku is on the higher side & may not be something families going to watch the film with their little ones would like.
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