If Udhayanidhi Stalin’s debut movie OK OK has prompted him to don the hero’s cap for a second time, then he has to blame none but himself, as he was just a supporting cast in that movie with Santhanam and director Rajesh doing the heavy lifting, the former did it on screen while the latter fueled the engine from behind the screen. This time with his second movie IKK, as a hero his weakness has been well exposed with not only a lamentably rehashed story but a tired-looking Santhaanam who is running short of tricks and who was the savior for him in his debut movie.
IKK’s story was riddled with far too many sub-plots that did not help the screenplay to even nudge forward and infact hampered the pace time and again with a bunch of tackily composed songs by Harris Jayaraj that had some brilliant visuals in foreign locales. A guy meets girl story was attempted to be narrated in a comic way which is a safe bet for any small time hero who likes to make a mark, but this one was right off the track and was aimless.
On top of everything, there were cliches like the heroine repelling the hero who is chasing her all the time and then when she realizes that he has come to the town for a cause she flips her feelings in a second and falls for him and then gets ready for a song. A ‘seasoned’ heroine like Nayantara falling for such a petty role cannot be termed as ‘surprising’ but can only be termed as destiny as it is with the case of other heroines in any other part of the Indian film industry.
In a nutshell, this one was long, boring and without any substance!
Rating: 1.5 / 5
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