Veer Dheera Sooran Part 2 Review: Vikram And SU Arun Kumar's Film Is all Brawn, Brains And Heart Too
Veera Dheera Sooran: Part 2 Review: The film doesn’t hold your hand—it drops you straight into a world already in motion. Director SU Arun Kumar uses smart storytelling, understated character moments, and emotional depth to elevate a familiar “man with a past” narrative into something...Read More
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Veer Dheera Sooran Part 2 Review: ‘Enter late and exit early’ is a popular screenwriting mantra that demands a writer start off the scene a bit late, narrowing it down to the important processing of the narrative, and exit before the resolution, leaving the audience wanting more. Director SU Arun Kumar has applied a part of this technique to the whole of Veera Dheera Sooran, which seems like a midpiece of a narrative. Hence, it’s numbered ‘Part 2’, despite being the first segment to get released. When we enter the world of Veera Dheera Sooran, it feels like you opened a novel midway. The characters are already established, and so are the origin of the context, and the motive of the characters. The film doesn’t wait for you to catch up, because it attempts to create a reality, where you are just an observer. It is indifferent to your understanding of what’s going on, and that’s the brilliance of Veera Dheera Sooran. It is more like reading a book than watching a film because it demands your investment.
Things kick off when a husband complains to the police that Kannan (Suraj Venjarmoodu), an influential gangster, has done something to his missing wife and daughter. SP Arunagiri (SJ Suryah), who harbours vengeance for Kannan and his father Ravi aka Periyavar (Prudhvi Raj), uses the opportunity to end the two. When things get bad to worse, Periyavar seeks the help of an old friend, Kaali (Vikram), who is now running a provision store in a village. We are never explicitly told about all of their dynamics, but we seem to get it. That’s the splendour of the writing. You understand the characters by their actions, and not by what they say. Kaali is tasked with the job of killing the SP, but things take a different route when a hit job goes haywire.
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In essence, Veera Dheera Sooran belongs to the same old trope of films about a man with a past. However, SU Arun Kumar’s film is unique because it is not about the story, but how it is delivered. Look at how effortlessly he establishes the romance between Kaali and his wife Kalaivani (Dushara). All it took for SU Arun Kumar was a bike ride of these two in their TV XL carrying all the goods for the provision store. Kalaivani doesn’t sit in the back as the rear is loaded with goods. She has to sit like a kid in the front. Immediately, the scene becomes unique. Kaali is late because he had to stop to buy treats for his wife. You get a cute little moment when Kaali messes with her as she tries to hop on the vehicle. Nothing is told but you realise it is their routine, and you feel like you already know them. It’s time Arun Kumar comes up with a full-blown romantic film.
Also, SU Arun Kumar understands heroism like no other. That’s why his heroines play a huge part in his film because the director understands a hero becomes valiant only when he has something to fight for. With Veer Dheera Sooran, almost everyone’s action is motivated to protect their family. The husband wants to find his missing wife and daughter. Periyavar wants to protect his son. Kaali wants to save his family. But we get to decide the hero and the villain based on who they are really. The path Periyavar chooses to save his son, and the path Kaali takes to save his own make us decide who is who. However, at the end of the day, saving one’s own seems to be the instinctive and default setting. Even Kalaivaani doesn’t shy away from putting a knife to a kid’s throat when it comes to hers.
Amidst such characters, Kaali becomes a Veera Dheera Sooran (Brave Heroic Warrior) because he resorts to the abomination only when all the doors are shut. His peace is by choice because he is capable of violence. He prevents himself from killing Venkat (Baalaji), and he even gives Periyavar a last chance to walk away. When violence is just an excuse for heroism in our cinema, Arun Kumar comes across as a highly sensitive director who pays utmost care to what is said and how it is said. On top of it all, he still manages Veera Dheera Sooran to be an entertaining commercial film–marrying the ‘mass’ and class.
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