Ponniyin Selvan 2 Review
I know it's been months since the movie got released but still I believe most of the people here still haven't seen the movie so j can review it.
One-word review - Good
Basic plot - After being failed to kill Arulmozhi Verman/Ponniyin Selvan (Jayam Ravi) in Sinhala, Pandya King along with Nandini Devi (Aishwarya Rai) is now planning to kill all three Cholas together in - King Sundara Chola (Prakash Raj), Elder Prince Aditha Karikalan (Chiyaan Vikram) and Younger prince Arulmozhi Verman. Vanthiyathevan (Karthi) who knows all their plans is trying to save all of them.
Many other subplots are going on side by side. Like Nadine's hatred towards Karikalan and oath to kill him by herself,
Madhurantkan's father's plan to kill Karikalan so that his son can get the throne,
Oomai rani story with Sundara Chola.
But still, the overall story just lies around internal politics in the great kingdom and how everyone somewhat just trying to kill King Chola and his sons.
Positives - Since the movie was mainly about the internal politics of that era, it successfully delivers what the makers tried to show.
The acting of every actor was good, of course, we can never complain about acting from Actors like Chiyaan Vikram, Aishwarya Rai, and Prakash Raj, but the rest of the actors like Jayam Ravi, Karthi, and Trisha also did their job.
Negatives - There are too many characters and to many subplots going around, so the audience gets confused what's actually going.
Many times even i forgot what's the character name and who is related to whom.
This reason must also effected this movie, that's why audience rejected it.
One more reason that audience didn't enjoyed this series was that everyone expected it to be like Baahubali series, big set pieces, heavy actions, heavy dialogues but movie is nothing like that. Of focus only about internal politics in big kingdom.
One thing which i am not able to understand even till now and that is - If whole story just revolve around Aditha Karikalan (Vikaram) and Nandini Devi (Aishwarya Rai) characters and their relationship then why the movie is named after Ponniyin Selvan. (Apart from fact that movie is based on book with same name).
