First act of the story is usually boring

AFTER the success of a rooted crime drama like Chithha, when SU Arunkumar announced his next to be a rustic actioner with Vikram in the lead, people were understandably surprised.

- PRASHANTH VALLAVAN

AFTER the success of a rooted crime drama like Chithha, when SU Arunkumar announced his next to be a rustic actioner with Vikram in the lead, people were understandably surprised. However, after the release of the film, it was evident that the director was not just pushing beyond the safe confines of a genre he recently succeeded in; Arunkumar was also experimenting with the Tamil commercial cinema format. Even though he had an established cinematic approach for a mainstream actioner with a film like Sethupathi (2016), the filmmaker bet on a fresh narrative structure for Veera Dheera Sooran Part 2. He explains, "I don't want to do the same film over and over again. I always set out to do something that is completely different from the last film I made. If I had wanted to do a film like Sethupathi, it would have invariably turned into a version of Sethupathi again."