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But no, then we wouldn’t have the slomos, ‘showing his gethu in front of the the amul baby’ scene, ‘puffing out smoke while crowdsurfing’ scene, ‘the bagging of a big deal by using Tamizh’ scene. She’d probably be earning thrice what Raghuvaran is making right now, and Raghuvaran taking care of household duties would be the most logical decision for the family, if better economic sense had prevailed. 1000 more points for reducing a self-made, independent, sane dentist to a shrieking housewife. Speaking of arrogance, which CEO (even if arrogant) with the least amount of business acumen would talk to a prospective employee like that? If she’d been this way all the time, how did she get her workforce and all the projects that made her reach this position? Her character is nothing more than an eternally frowning, annoying caricature masquerading as a strong woman. If not for what I think is Soundarya’s intervention, he’d have gone the whole way in putting the arrogant woman in her place. It just felt like a lazy spin-off on Rajni’s Maapillai, Mannan and Padayappa, only without taming the shrew part, which he had do away with because hey, Dhanush is apparently a closet feminist, which he discloses at the end through his lectures on men-women equality (the last person I’d hear lectures on women empowerment from).
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Couldn’t they have sneaked in a scene around this decision? A bigger issue is that Shalini has given up her dental clinic practice and become a housewife. That film had a scene where parents agree to marry their daughter off to a groom who demands ten lakhs as dowry. Story/dialogues are credited to Dhanush.) I remember wringing my hands over a similar issue in Vai Raja Vai, directed by Soundarya’s sister, Aishwarya. Should we burden women directors with the expectation that their female characters be more sensitively crafted? (Soundarya Rajinikanth also gets screenplay credit.
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Raghuvaran and Shalini (Amala Paul) are married, but she’s transformed from the sweet, supportive girlfriend of earlier to a nagging shrew. It’s a year since the events of the first film. Here, the arc is somebody to nobody to somebody. Part 1 had him graduate from a nobody to a somebody. He still drives his dinky old bike, which seems to weigh even less than he does. He’s still in the same middle-class house. So one doesn’t walk into Velai Illa Pattadhari 2 (Unemployed Graduate), directed by Soundarya Rajinikanth, expecting Raghuvaran (Dhanush) in a bungalow, a Merc parked in the garage. Whether we’re talking Bond movies or the Dhoom franchise or the Singam series, the mantra of the next instalment is this: feed them more of the same hit formula, yet make it taste different.
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