Spoilers ahead…
Read the full review on Film Companion, here: http://www.filmcompanion.in/kalakalappu-2-movie-review/
Through the first half of Kalakalappu 2, I kept glancing at the time. 30 minutes in, and we’ve just had one weak stab at a joke. It’s when Jiiva calls out to his dog, named Sugar. And Jai asks, “Sweet dog aa. Naai ku Sugar nu paer vechirukkeenga?” (This is so not worth translating.) A little later, when Sathish is accused of sending a woman a phone message, he asks, “En handwriting la irundhudha?” (See note about translation above.) At the one-hour mark, we get a boob joke, playing on the word “pazham.” The audience laughed. As for me, the only smile came from imagining the circumstances that led to Sathish having Catherine Tresa for a sister. I recalled what Jagan, cast as Tamannah’s brother in Ayan, said: “Amma paal, appa decoction.”
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Sri Prabhuram
February 9, 2018
I don’t see a star rating there. Did you stop giving them?
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Siva
February 10, 2018
#ASKBR:
BR,
Quotes from the review:
1) “We go to his films for easy laughs”
2) “I began to wonder if Sundar C. had lost his touch. The second half, thankfully, picks up”
Akin to the second-half of this movie — even though I get from the review that this one is not as funnier — , I really liked the second half of Kalakalappu 1 (especially post the arrival of one Mr.N.Santhanam). Now, how would you compare the 1.5 stars of this one with Mr.Sundar’s yester year blockbusters, like for example a ‘Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga’ or the much beloved ‘Ullaththai Alliththaa’? I am just curious. What would be your star ratings for these two movies?
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shaviswa
February 10, 2018
Wait!! Sundar C is still directing films? How sad!
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praneshp
February 11, 2018
@shawiswa why, what’s wrong? He has his own production house, and has done reasonably well in the recent past.
He was going to make the most expensive Tamil movie ever, btw (before the producers went a different way to burn their money).
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shaviswa
February 11, 2018
praneshp – his last few films have been downright horrible.
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praneshp
February 11, 2018
@shaviswa: I’d say only Aranmanai 2 was horrible. Most people on this blog will disagree that they were great movies, but Aranmanai and Aambala were quite popular.
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Enna Koduka Sir Pera
February 11, 2018
“Best of all, Shiva is back in cracking form, making lines that sound flat on paper (“Naan kaaki sattai potta katatumirandi”) seem far funnier. ”
I haven’t watched the movie, if I do, I will probably skip to Shiva’s portions directly. He is one of the very, very few comedians in Tamil cinema that I can tolerate these days. In fact, I really like his style of “mokkai” comedy and dialogue delivery and the fact that his comedy is not based on making fun of other people/women(panni thalaiya, noodles thalaiya, chappa figaru nee pesariya etc. etc. nonsense in the name of comedy). I enjoyed his Sonna Puriyathu movie quite a lot.
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Naveen
February 12, 2018
the only line i can write having good, sundar c, movie would be the one that has Anbe Sivam in the same line.
was it ghost directed by Kamal? Kalakalapu 1 was quite fun though as filmy as our movie can get. the kind of hilarity created between Santhanam and Mano bala was too good.
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shaviswa
February 12, 2018
WOW!! @Naveen – Never knew that Anbe Sivam was directed by Sundar C. Clearly, it looks like ghost directed.
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brangan
February 12, 2018
shaviswa: looks like ghost directed
You don’t say!! 🙂
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shaviswa
February 12, 2018
@Brangan – I did not name he who shall not be named though!! 😀
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Thupparivaalan
February 13, 2018
Loving the shiva love here. He cracks me up effortlessly. I think a huge part of why I like him is because of Tamil Padam. Wonder what happened to that director.
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brangan
February 13, 2018
Thupparivaalan: Here you go. CS Amudhan has begun a fortnightly series in Film Companion from the sets of Tamizh Padam 2.
http://www.filmcompanion.in/directors-diaries-sets-thamizh-padam-2-cs-amudhan/amp/
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shaviswa
February 13, 2018
Awesome. I loved Tamil padam and wish there were more such films that made the Tamil film world reflect upon the crap they dish out film after film. 🙂
Would love to see what CS Amudhan has to offer now.
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Naveen
February 13, 2018
Like Amuthan, i was looking towards the next works of Eeram director. did he deliver movies post Eeram? had high expectations on Poo Sasi too, but lost interest later.
do these directors give away all theri stuff in their first movie and struggle at the very second? eagerly awaiting Naragasuran of Karthik Narain
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Mohan
February 13, 2018
Eeram Director had given a few watchable movies definitely, namely Vallinam(basketball movie), Kuttram 23
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Sutheesh Kumar
February 16, 2018
Hi BR, 1.5 stars for this drivel viz a viz 1 for ONNPS😁😂🤣. Thanks for the laughs because this movie was seriously unfunny.
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