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The buildup and marketing to Lokesh Kanagaraj's Kamal Hassan starrer "Vikram" has been nothing short of all-encompassing, driven primarily by the fact that the 36-year old young director is yet to direct a sub-par movie, with "Maanagaram (2017)", "Kaithi (2019)" and "Master (2021)", all having been well-received by audiences. And the precocious storyteller delivers, with a mazy yet continuously engaging crime saga with resounding mass elevation sequences and enough emotional hooks to keep the audience invested.

3-time National Award winner for Best Actor Kamal Hassan stars as a grieving father heartbroken at the loss of his son, who was a policeman investigating the burgeoning drug mafia in Chennai and who had, before his mysterious murder, uncovered a staggering cache of illegal drugs the syndicate safeguarded . Enter Fahadh Faasil, a black ops specialist charged with unraveling the mystery around the carnage unleashed by the cartel as a result. Vijay Sethupathi stars as the head honcho of the vicious and vengeful mafia operation and is first shown to the audience in one of the most intricately weaved, deliciously bonkers intro sequences for an antagonist in recent memory.

It is testament to Lokesh Kanagaraj's directorial genius that he manages to give his three lead actors enough room to develop their characters and build a connect with the viewers. If it is Sethupathi's quirky eccentricities that catch the eye, Fahadh's intensity weaves a subplot of its own while Kamal excels in the emotional sequences. Lokesh Kanagaraj had told us to rewatch his classic "Kaithi (2019)" before we went to theaters to watch "Vikram" and with good reason, with the two movies being intricately connected and seemingly leading up to an extensive LKU-A mouth-watering Lokesh Kanagaraj Universe! A fantastic cameo from superstar Suriya is the cherry on the cake, with the actor looking the most stylish and massy he has in years!

The director's penchant for crime thrillers, retro music and biryani continues to hold good for "Vikram" with Anirudh Ravichander's music rendering a soaring sheen to the narrative being built. The callbacks and references to old Kamal classics blend smoothly with the storytelling and are never jarring or contrived. The actor's phenomenal voice modulation and expressive eyes elevate even simple sequences to another level, especially his interactions with his toddler grandson.

Master stunt choreographer duo Anbariv continue the same rich vein of form they displayed in the KGF franchise, but this time sacrificing the larger canvas for more close-quarters, hand-to-hand combat in tight spaces. Girish Gangadharan's cinematographer is other-worldly as usual, soaking up the bone-crunching action in all its glory. Editor Philomin Raj also deserves praise for ensuring that a movie with a seemingly daunting 3 hour run-time is never boring at any stretch.

While you might see many of the plot's twists coming, the visual grammar, treatment and picturization takes your breath away, nevertheless. "Vikram" is yet another endeavor from a superstar fanboy that pays rich dividends, along the lines of Prithviraj's Mohanlal tribute "Lucifer (2019)", Karthik Subbaraj's Rajnikanth-starrer "Pettah (2019)" as well as Amal Neerad's ode to Mammootty, "Bheeshma Parvam (2022)". Highly recommended! Long live the Lokesh Kanagaraj universe!

Very engaging screenplay and overall great performances by all stars. A lot of fan moments to enjoy. Looking forward to future installments of the Vikram series. Congratulations to Lokesh and team.

Not Kamal Haasan Not Fahad Fazil Not Vijay Sethupathi Not Surya Lokesh is the Real Hero

Utilised the Cast perfectly ... BGM, Theatre Experience was lit 🔥

#Vikram - Fire Fire Fire 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. Best cinematic experience l've ever had in recent times ,action packed second half deserves multiple watch! @ikamalhaasan , Fafa, @VijaySethuOffl& @Suriya_offl- what a treat to watch all these powerful performers in one film 🙏 @Dir_Lokesh.

Excellent story, well-knit and full of exciting climaxes, performances are to die for, music and action choreography are both striking.

KH- charming, strong, ageless and confident as ever, couldn't take my eyes off that man.

He is a WOW!

VS- a unique performer and each of his work is like a case study. That auto rickshaw scene was Ssssuperb!

FF- fierce and hideous, he evolves with every role with an unbeatable impact on his audience.

Oh, that housemaid delivered a mind blowing performance. She was so cool 👏👏👏

From last few years south Indian PAN movies are surprising us with their content and Kamal sir is legend. This movie has so may south superstar and movie is action thriller and story gives you thrill.

Go for this movie if you are fan of action thriller movie.

All Three KamalHassan, FahadFaasil, VJSethupathi Dominates & Drives the Whole movie, which they kept us on Edge of the Seat. Best & Continuous Action & Violence Sequences Made in Recent times Better than KGF < Vikram. Loki's Writing Screenplay Direction Makes us shocks - Twists - Goosebumps - Repeat. Waiting for his Multiverse Connections. Anirudh Extraordinary, Stunning, HollywoodRange BGM😳 was unbelievable. Young Anirudh was Proud of TamilCinema & Gem for IndianIndustries. ActionPacked Must watch Thriller Totally Made for Theatre experience.

All I could hear for the past few days is that Vikram is such an awesome movie and all. So naturally, I had so much expectations. I have to say I wasn't satisfied. But I wasn't disappointed either.

The action sequences are well shot. Kamal, Fahad, Chemban Vinod(the police officer) nailed their roles. Anirudh does a great job with the background score and songs.

Keep your expectations low and you'll be in for a treat.

KH is back with a bang in this action movie. The action scenes are raw and chilling. Every character has brilliant characteristics and are used brilliantly to the screenplay. Fahad Fazil has a good emotional part. Do watch if you like raw action movies!!

This is a movie which Indian cinema should respect ..nothing gonna stand between Vikram ...best no words. Kamal as a lion ..sethupathi a elephant and Fahad as a tiger and finally Surya hahahha and anirudh and Loki awesome.

This was literally out of imagination. We can say that this was one steps further to KGF -2.

I don't know where South Indian Industries are going, but the way they move, it's going to be tough for KOREAN FILM INDUSTRY & HOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY.

This is the must-watch movie to feel the theater experience.

After a long waited Vikram finally hit the theatres . Loki nailed the screenplay. No more words about universal Hero kamal hasaan he is one of the legendry actor in Indian industry. Fahadh fassil and Vijay sethupathy lived the character.

At last Vikram will be profitable venture for Tamil industry. Even though the film released in pan India for Tamil it will be a block bluster .

Forget about suriya and ani (wow) that's it.

Waiting for vikram 2

Loki one request need karthi in part 2 without him it will be a half plated meals.

The greatest challenge for Lokesh Kanagaraj, as a filmmaker, wasn't just to offer several hoot-worthy moments for fans of Kamal Hassan, but to come up with a first-of-its-kind pure action film featuring a trio of actors who are known for their spectacular performances. His packaging totally delivers, with a fantastic outing for all the guys involved. Plotwise speaking, Vikram is basically The Batman set in Chennai. A serial killer is on the loose, and a special ops team is tasked with finding the culprit. While that's just one way of putting it across, Vikram is a lot beyond that. It's also about a father avenging his son's death, and a massive drug bust; it's also about gangsters, special agents, and rogue cops - Lokesh's universe-building skills are excellent!

I'm SO GLAD Lokesh chose these actors to play their respective roles. Vijay Sethupathi's antagonist act is even more menacing than the one in Master, and when he's high, he's next-level. Fahadh Faasil essentially holds the proceedings together in the first half, in a solid feat that keeps getting better. As for Hassan, this is a film where the director just lets him run amok, going absolutely wild in the set-pieces. Speaking of the set-pieces (choreographed by Anbariv), these are some of the most well-crafted and staged works you'll see in an Indian film in a good while. DOP Girish Gangadharan captures all the pyro-filled beauty of the action, while also using close-ups to pick up the subtler expressions of the dashing trio.

And there is no Vikram without Anirudh Ravichander, whose remarkable music and background score elevate the film to greater heights. The riff-filled theme music is one that'll stay on my playlist for a pretty long time. The editing by Philomin Raj ensures a certain pace to the film's events, even when it shows signs of slowing down. Suriya's late entry sparks even more delight when he's playing a full-blown baddie, with chances of him squaring off against Dilli (from Kaithi) all the more possible now. Yes, (re)watch Kaithi before seeing Vikram for an enhanced universe-building experience.

A best PAN INDIAN flim from tamilnadu RRR ---> Rocked Kgf ---->killed Vikram --->wrecked #Loki universe ...!

#Fanboy moment.

#vikram #Kamalhasan #vijaysethupathi #fahadfasil #suriya #lokesh kanagaraj.

Will give 10-stars for Kamal who at his age of 72 years, looks and continuous to act like how he was in his 30-40s. Brilliant acting by Fahaad and Vijay Sethupathi.

However the script is to dragging, extreme amount of unrealistic violence, way too noisy background score for all action scenes. A rating of 9 after a week on screens is way too exaggerated for this flick. To do justice to other IMDB movies that are rated 9 & above, I'm dragging my rating for this Vikram movie to 2. If movie like VIKRAM VEDHA is 8.2 on IMDB, this movie should be worth no more than 7.

As much as I enjoyed this movie, I still feel like this shouldn't have been a Kamal Haasan movie.

Kamal has had a string of great movies recently... With Unnaipol Oruvan; a dialogue-heavy movie where the conflict required no excessiveness, with Vishwaroopam; a movie while flawed, was ambitious enough to take Tamil cinema to a non-Tamil accustomed front, with Uttama Villain; one of Kamal Haasan's best movies to date that is one of the very few movies in this exaggerated industry to consciously portray cinema as an actual art form, with Papanasam; one of the most simplest, yet a brilliantly made thrillers, with Thoongavanam; a movie that seemed to rid itself of every cliche that plagues the Tamil cinema industry (this includes the runtime as well), and Vishwaroopam 2; well.... Vishwaroopam 2 never happened.

And after 4 years, we have a new Kamal Haasan movie; which while enjoyable by Tamil cinema standards, doesn't have the ambitions and the cinematic progressiveness that Kamal movies have had. It was very well written, especially in its first half, but ultimately ends up being a Tamil action movie and I need not asterisk anything. The energy of the movie never waned and while it did seem like the writers hyped the story into a cliche third act, the movie holds up well, very well in fact, in the entertainment box.

Overall, I'd rather have seen this movie with some other actor since I feel like this macho persona is best left for someone that is not Kamal Haasan... not that he's bad at it, he actually did a stellar job, but because as of right now, he's the only big name Tamil actor to push the boundaries of this cursed industry. The last thing I'd want from him is the usual Tamil archetype overpowered Super Saiyan freak that we've seen a million times.

I'll admit it- i loved the original Vikram movie (1986) which was a spy thriller and ahead of its time in Indian cinema. Not surprisingly, I had similar expectations for this movie as I walked in.

Lo and behold, I was hit with a badly done knockoff copy of reservoir dogs/pulp fiction/KGF coupled with crass dialogues, cuss words and poor character development (apart from Kamal's character). This turned out to be a typical mass masala movie involving gangsters, corrupt police officials whom the hero literally mows down using a WW-I era machine gun. I wish I could get back those 3 hours of my life, my money and my dead brain cells.

Needless to say, this is going to be my last kamal movie. If you're a die-hard kamal fan who doesn't care about others think and wants to kill some time watching this in a theater, go for it.

Vikram is one of the most interesting and anticipating movie for everyone because of the massive star cast. After Pushpa, RRR and KGF Chapter 2, Vikram is released to roar. The film is a complete commercial paisa wasool movie.

First half of the movie is fantastic. Fahadh Faasil is the best young actor in today's time according to me. He has done a superb job. Vijay Setupathy is a gem of an actor. I loved his entry scene here. No other actor can pull up this entry scene as he has done it. Other star cast is also very much suitable and provide a good support. First half belongs to FaFa and Vijay.

While, the second half is a treat for Kamal Haasan fans. Ulaga Nayagan- Kamal Haasan is extremely good in the post interval portion. You will be surprised to see him firing constantly from the giant machine gun. That scene is on another level.

Though, one may find first half awesome and second half a bit stretched. I found that there are some surprises in the later half, but there are a few blunders too. But just a few. Like I didn't get the scene of child re-breathing.

Special mention to the actress who played the role of a maid. She is superb.

Lokesh's direction is improving gradually. This film will be considered his finest directorial product. He has done a fine job, without getting caught by the idea of too much slow-motion, which many people hate including me, and which were too much in KGF. Though, this film is different from RRR and KGF, it can be compared with Pushpa. As part 2 is coming here too. People are going to love Surya as the bad guy in part two. Just a glimpse of him in the end was terrific.

Anirudhha has done his job superbly once again. The title theme music is on my mind while I'm writing this. Extraordinary music with a catchy tune is what Anirudhha offers to you!

On the whole, a must watch movie in theaters. This is how a good commercial south indian movie looks like. A good movie with stellar performances.