One other South Indian film takes the pan-India route and arrives in Hindi theaters as well. Sardar 2, starring Karthi and SJ Suryah, has dropped the Hindi version of its prologue, and it’s secondary to debate whether it’s impressive or not. My primary concern is – whether the South will leave anything for Bollywood.
Now, don’t get me flawed, I’m neither a regionally biased person, nor do I endorse any separatist emotion for Cinema. But, there was a time when there have been a only a few dubbed South Indian movies and we enjoyed it due to scarcity!
Post Baahubali, there was still a really specific content, which was being delivered because the pan-India. But post Pushpa, there may be this sudden flood, and the audiences are actually confused. With each South Indian film being presented as a pan-India film, there may be lots of confusion regarding the consumption of the content as well! Anyway, that is perhaps an extended discussion, but we’ll discuss it another day! Coming back to Sardar 2, I’m unsure if I’m impressed!
Now, why am I not impressed? Because I do not know what’s and who’s Sardar. If the prologue must not have mentioned – Once a Spy, all the time a Spy, I’d not have cracked on this lifetime that Sardar is a Spy! Identical to our Tiger! And Karthi has his own Spy Universe, similar to now we have here in Bollywood!
So Karthi, in Sardar 2’s prologue, makes sure that he’s saving our desh from a khatra. Despite not knowing the context, I need to admit that the prologue is intense and interesting, and it sets the stage for an epic war. Karthi‘s heroic and fiery presence and SJ Suryah’s dark, brooding eyes guarantee an epic face-off as well. My only problem is I have no idea this world, and rather a lot should have happened before, but I’m unsure if I really need or must know what happened partially 1!
The film checks all of the boxes apart from the proven fact that I’m unsure if we want this film for a Hindi audience. Is it an actual khatra for our Tigers and Pathaans? Well, probably not, probably, but we want the OG Spy Universe, War 2, come soon!
Try the Hindi prologue of the film here.
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