Vishwaroop: Edge-of-the-seat thriller

Starring: Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar Andrea Jeremiah, Rahul Bose Jaideep Ahlawat
Rated: 7/10
The controversy is redundant, the film is absolutely not. Wonder why and how this Muslim sentiment angle got into a film that is one of the best racy thrillers one has seen in a long time. Vishwaroop is very Hollywood, very expansive, very edge-of-the-seat, very Kamal Haasan terror thriller that refuses to lie low in any department whatsoever.
Yes, it is too long at two hours and 28 minutes, but the absolutely gripping combat sequences thrill you with their audacity and a strange kind of perfection. Hassan has gone all-out to entertain you and he does so as a dynamo of a single-pivot film by one man who is writer, director, producer and actor of a film that is, by far, his biggest, most ambitious one and yet perfectly hinged film that will make R&AW agents happy, send FBI agents to the Haasan learning school of tactics and combat and the terrorists to the cowering room.
Till almost the end, it holds on to the pace and once you get out of the hall you wonder why, who and about what these crazy protests were all about. It’s just a keen action thriller with no other intention whatsoever. By the way, it is also one movie that is not to be missed, never mind even if you are no Kamal Haasan fan.
Source: Published in Sunday Pineer, 3 February, 2013

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