Nobody quite knows what lies behind the face. We are told that Amar's name might not be his real one. Masks, assumed identities and fate play key roles in Vikram: Hitlist. As his probe progresses, the film reveals snatches from the life of the dead Karan, raising a string of questions about the man and his fate. It leaves the city police force groping for answers.Īmar (Faasil), a policeman who operates in the shadows and is deployed only for top secret missions, is called in to nab a gang of mysterious masked men who are believed to be responsible for the killings.
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A series of murders, including that of Karan (Kamal Haasan), follows. However, as the pace of the film settles and the flurry of details gives way to steadier plot exposition, it all begins to fall in place and soar.Ī consignment of raw substance shipped for the production of thousands of kilograms of cocaine is whisked away by a brave young policeman in Chennai. As one struggles to grasp the goings-on and the befuddled mind wanders a touch, one does have three actors on the screen who you cannot take your eyes off. In its first 20-30 minutes or so, Vikram: Hitlist delivers a somewhat disorienting information overload. Faasil's is a performance of sustained brilliance.Įven when Vijay Sethupathi, playing a dreaded drug lord desperately looking for a shipment that has dropped out of sight, steps in to add another striking dimension to the tale, it is Faasil, delivering a characteristically effortless performance that straddles a wide spectrum of emotions, who steals the thunder. He, of course, delivers more than just occasional flashes of genius. The deal is that, with Kamal Haasan stepping away from the spotlight, the script carves out space for Fahadh Faasil, in the guise a plainclothes cop who specializes in dangerous undercover operations, to make his presence felt.
No sooner has the song run its course than he disappears for a bit only to resurface in brief flashbacks, leaving the audience wondering what the deal really is.
Kamal Haasan, who has produced the film under his Raj Kamal Films International banner, starts off the proceedings with a musical set piece that is hardly of a piece with the rest of the hi-octane crime drama. The latter, on his part, leaves room for co-actors Vijay Sethupathi and Fahadh Faasil to share the limelight in a compelling action thriller packed with explosions, chases, gunfights, hyper-heroic acts and all the stuff that the writer-director needs in order to conjure up a cinematic universe of his own. Vikram: Hitlist does not, however, go overboard with its obeisance to the veteran. Kanagaraj wrote the script with Kamal Haasan primarily in mind. Vikram, which shares its title with a 1986 film in which Kamal Haasan played a secret agent on the trail of an intercontinental ballistic missile that goes missing in transit, revolves around a crusade for a "drug-free world".
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The film has it all - espionage, serial killings, vigilantism, a covert police investigation and a drug bust that unleashes mayhem.
The result - released in Hindi as Vikram: Hitlist, Kamal Haasan's first release in four years - isn't without its share of flaws but it is never less than exciting: a potent, persuasive medley of genres.
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