Indian 2 from Kannammaa's POV

So, this is my share of negative reviews of Indian 2. Hope you all enjoy it.

Being a woman is the worst insult for a man? Pativrata karmam. Also, from where did the eyeliner, lipstick, and blush come from all of a sudden? Wow, who needs makeup when Pativrata karmam is here? What a villain character Gulshan Grover was, and Shankar made him a comedy piece.

One can’t expect better than Shankar even in 2024, I guess. He’s still perpetuating the regressive idea that men who behave like women are contemptible. He didn’t learn a thing from the backlash for the transgender portrayal in the movie I. Also, Bharathanatyam dancers and belly dancers (including male dancers) show such a nalinam body language. Normal women, men, transwomen, transmen, gays, lesbians—all have neutral body language. Someone sue this Brahman_a director like Imane Khelif did JK Rowling and Elon Musk.

Dear moms, if you want to move your child to include your name in their names, you must climb 365 stairs on your knees and bleed, exposing your child to such a traumatic experience.

Perpetuating religious rituals and glorifying motherhood. A child can never insert their mom’s name into theirs just out of love? The mother needs to climb stairs on her knees, bleed, and go through so much pain to get it. Fathers only need to ejaculate to get it. And fathers won’t do the climbing stairs ritual for their child. The Brahman_am is punctuated.

What a legendary actor Delhi Ganesh is - I love him in Avvai Shanmugi and Eathiree. 

They made him babble in the name of singing karmam. Really? SJ Suryah in Indian 2. I don't know what his role is and why he is there wearing gold dog chains and oversized bling coats. He looks more like a HipHop artist than someone who bribes.

The biggest problem women in India are facing is not affording to get a gold thali, not child marriage, lack of access to education and period products, and cultural norms that not only restrict our human development, but also kill us.

Just because it rhymes, it doesn’t mean you can write something so out of touch and tone-deaf. Just like how the granite scammer doesn’t need a gold lavatory, Indian women don’t need a gold thali. Shankar is the master in packaging the most regressive, colorist, and backward thoughts in a manner so shiny, glamorous, and extravagant, we subsume them without question. I think directors like Pa Ranjith, Mari Selvaraj, and Vetrimaaran are reversing the damage. But Shankar said in an interview that he watches movies from the latter but doesn’t acknowledge the message—that’s Brahman_a director for you.

They themselves will say, “Come back Indian. Nothing changed. No one reformed.” And then, they will tell Indian to go back. Opposing our parents is a process that needs to be held out—it’s not a one-off event. It doesn’t work like that—this is something we all go through. So, the calling out of the corrupt within our families half-heartedly didn’t resonate with all of us.

When I started Karuththu Kannammaa in 2015, backing down wasn’t an option. I had to wade through murky waters filled with alligators that threatened to r@pe and kill me. So, when I saw how weak Siddharth and his gang’s resolve is, I was disheartened. Independence from the British wasn’t achieved in a day—why, that’s Indian 3’s thematic plot. And then you place some spineless young tantrum throwers from cushy backgrounds as fighters to clean the corruption from the country and they give up just like that—really?

She will download AR Rahman’s songs from iTunes and find her own life partner—but won’t say no to a big fat Indian wedding, dowry, and same-caste marriage. Shankar—your Brah is showing, brah, pun intended.

The bunch of kids can thrive simply by having a YouTube channel and are so fucking jobless, they can introduce themselves as “social media” when questioned by the police. It’s obvious that their parents are funding their lifestyle with extra cheddar from the cheese they make—and any kid would know how much their parents make vis-a-vis the lifestyle they lead. It’s only after that Indian grandfather tells them to weed out corruptions within their homes, do they start spying and realizing. Please la wei… The Brah trifecta that worked in this film thinks that their brains overflow by birth and use that so-called God-given reputation to feed us its fecal matter.

The only thing that was truthfully done is how Indian families are built at their core—children are indebted to their parents. There are high doses of gaslighting disguised as parental sacrifice and emotional blackmail disguised as love in Indian families.

I have to agree with this—Indian families are transactional. Even if you don’t have the heart to accept it, it’s the truth. You are expected to go along with every decision the elders in the family make—and do things like study the course they choose and marry the person they approve. The smallest act of revolution is betrayal to the family. Naturally, all brownie children assemble here with hands raised.

Siddharth—sothulayum adi vangiachi. Sethulayum adi vangiachi. In Boys, he runs in the nude along Mount Road. In Indian 2, he receives slipper beatings.

Ayoo, paavooo… (Aww, poor thing.)

Kamal’s makeup in Indian 2 is subpar. And the sprinkling of previous movies' dialogues and BGMs here and there failed miserably.

The makeup in Indian 1 was top-notch—even the body language of an old man was apt and believable. Nothing of that sort is seen in Indian 2. And that karmam he does to absorb muscles from the ripped men who come to kill him and the saliva karmam in zero gravity… aiyo.

Nothing changed in Shankar’s filmmaking. Kamal got a black face when he comes as a cleaner at the graveyard. Manobala is body-shamed. Stereotypical depiction of the unruly lot in the lower rungs of the economy with access to Facebook and the UC lot not being able to digest it. A completely unnecessary “item” song to lure males to the theater.

Shankar is the mootai poochi (bed bug) that makes me retch. Even in Indian 3, Kajal Agarwal looks so pristine, so white, and so polished.

My conclusion: Intha aalu thirunthamataaru. (This man won’t mend his ways.)