Billa 2 - MyView

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I was skeptical to watch this because of unanimous comments on this movie right from the day one.
The decision got stronger when I heard that few days after release, ticket prices were slashed 1/5th of the day one ticket price.

But I stepped into movie hall daringly. And after watching the movie, I was not sorry for that. Because this is one another reference for Tamil movie industry for stylish film making.

The story describes the transformation of a Refugee to an Gangster. A 'lungi' wearing Ajith to one in Blazer.
Ajit looks very charming and stylish on western outfits.

The movie starts with the same dialogue which was popularly highlighted in the movie trialer. The same dialogue and stunt is repeated near the climax too.

Cinematography and BGM are the main spine for the movie. Rathinavelu and Yuvan has done an fantastic job. Many wouldn't notice, the color tone changes along with Billa's transform.

I really like the song which goes after Billa takes over his first enemy's regime. Its a monochromatic, comical story telling kind of clips editor together. It was totally in new our tamil movies (after Alavandhan, where cartoon would be used instead). Same style was applied when the initial credits slides (it looks similar to that of spiderman but here with background sounds of the events)

Another set of technicians who showed their overwhelming performance was Stunt team and Special effects team. Since this is an gangster movie, they didn't miss any of the important attributes like blood, fight, girls, guns, cigars and drinks.

Director(Chakri Toleti) being a new fellow (we cant consider Unai pol oruvan has his debut, since it was a Kamalhasan's movie) he has tried his best. But made many mistakes, few of them are very prominent. Most of them are continuity errors, like blood strains in knife, shirt disappear and appears after a scene. 

The story describes about the growth of billa, which we assume it happens in early 90s. Few of the screen properties prove that, like heavy cellphones, cordless phones,pistols etc. But in many places we can see recent kind vehicles like Sumo, eicher's tempo, trailers, yellow color name plate etc. Subtitles were missing for few English and Russian dialogues.

Dialogues were good(should say impressive), and few places powerful. I like the dialogue when one of the gangster exclaims about the worth of arms business and Billa replies, 'Demand is not for the arms, its for the death'. In another place when Billa chats with CM he says, 'For doing good or bad, effort/dedication is required.'

Though its a sequel movie, there is no direct connection between the two except 'Ranjit' and 'Jagdesh' characters. I should say, he has chosen an enough and safe distance. Another challenge

for the director was, Vishnuvardan(Billa I director) has set the bars so high. Chakri has managed to just touch it with help of Ajit Kumar and other technicians.

We have seen many such movies like Pudhupettai and recently Mangatha. May be that's the reason Billa 2 was not interesting to people. But I have a question to people who complain about the violence in a gangster movie. If you want a non-violent gangster movie, you should get call sheet of MK Thiagaraja Bagavadhar. Is someone ready for the attempt?