Chiranjeevi’s recent release, ‘Acharya’, which also had his son and bankable star Ram Charan, tanked at the box office mainly due to its lacklustre storyline. Now that they are back with renewed vigour, I hope the directors are well-equipped to handle them and the expectations we’re harbouring. His counterparts in the South, such as Rajinikanth and Chiranjeevi, had stayed away from the ethereal pull of cinema for a few years in the previous decade. Among the veteran superstars, Mammootty has never taken a break since the 1980s. But imagine how awful ‘Vikram’ would have been had the foundation been a mess?Īlthough Sethupathi and Fahadh Faasil have earned numerous pats on their backs for their roles, ‘Vikram’ is more of a comeback vehicle for Kamal Haasan, whose last on-screen outing was ‘Vishwaroopam II’ in 2018. Of course, it has big guns like Kamal Haasan, Vijay Sethupathi, and Fahadh Faasil, and it helps that Anirudh Ravichander’s music sets the right mood for all the emotional rollercoaster rides and fight sequences in the crime thriller.

The success of Lokesh Kanagaraj’s Tamil thriller ‘Vikram’ has proved once again that what matters the most for a movie’s success is its story.

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