The trailer of the Vikram-starrer Saamy Square shows Vikram, who is known to experiment with various kinds of roles, running amok blatantly exhibiting machismo.
Never has this solid Tamil actor with a slew of prized performances to his credit been seen to be so crudely heroic in the most basic cinematic sense. Rippling muscles, flaring nostrils, blaring dialogues… Playing a cop he snarls, he swears, he beats up his adversaries, and most macho of all, he treats his lady love like trash in this sequel of 2003 hit Saamy.
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This is Salman Khan's Dabangg territory being invaded by the redoubtable Vikram. And the prime casualty of Vikram overweening machismo is the leading-lady Keerthy Suresh. Just the other day gorgeous lady held centrestage in Mahanati. Now here in her first post-Mahanati release she is content being the secondary interest, the glamour prop, so to speak.
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One can see Vikram, a fine actor with a penchant for nuanced character construction, struggling to appear larger than life Saamy. He screams for attention in bare-chested glory barely giving the other actors a chance to have a word edgewise.
The worst casualty is Keerthy, whom the audiences expect to see a lot more of after Mahanati than what Saami Square is likely to offer. This is not what we expect from her. Or for that matter from Vikram whom we have come to associate with quality cinema in Tamil.