Vadivelu-Sundar C's Relentless Efforts Keep This Chaotic Film Afloat

Sundar C's Gangers is best enjoyed as an elaborate setup for Vadivelu's gags.

- PRASHANTH VALLAVAN

Most of them work, some fall flat, and others are in bad taste, but even if you laugh a few times, you do laugh the hardest, and that's how the film wins.

Sundar C and Vadivelu reunite after decades, and they seem extremely aware of the expectations attached to that. At some moments, you can feel the pressure to satisfy the fans, stretching out certain comedy tracks, rendering them desperate and unfunny. But the story is an ever-expanding dartboard. As every attempt at comedy is thrown at it constantly, it contorts to stretch and expand so something eventually sticks.

Gangers even switches genres in the middle to become a heist film, to wring out every wacky humor you can think of. Of course, Sundar C's signature masala flavor—with enough family drama and emotional moments to go along with glamour and visually loud fights—is also infused into this vigilante-comedy-heist-drama.