Story

RK Selvamani (whose credit appears thrice in the titles) touches upon everything from petrol prices to black money, bureaucratic corruption, and megalomaniac businessman to tell this investigative thriller that is not satisfying as both a thriller and a political commentary. The film begins promisingly as we witness a luridly staged murder and there are some exciting chasing scenes filmed in crowded streets. The basic premise is quite interesting but Pulan Visarani 2 often ends up being unintentionally funny (in the climactic court scene, a lawyer asks why Shah Jahan is being called the builder of Taj Mahal when it was the labourers who erected it to counter his rival who tries to save Rakesh by saying that he did not personally murder the accident victims), with barely functional performances from the cast. The re-recording by SP venkatesh is unbearably loud; even a simple camera pan is accompanied by a crashing BGM. Prashanth gets an introduction scene that echoes Vijayakanth’s introduction scene in Captain Prabhakaran while Karthika appears just to dance in a song and then be killed by the villain’s henchmen. As the villain, RK is a total contrast to Sarath Kumar, who was absolutely frightening in the first film (which gave him his big break), and looks like he is having a bad hair day. He is mostly seen along with planes, sea planes, boats, bikini babes and suited henchmen that it is hard to take him as a mastermind who wants to control every business in India.