Gatta Kusthi 2 Review: About two months before Gatta Kusthi was released, a Malayalam film called Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey was released. That film and this one have almost the same story. That film was a huge hit. As far as Tamil is concerned, we’re the kind of people who’ll settle for whatever profit we get. This film too ran quite well, just as an okay film, Gatta Kusthi and all. But till today they haven’t made a Part 2 for that film. They’re not going to make one either. Because they have the confidence to say, ‘We know how to write a better story than this and make a good film.’
Our situation isn’t like that. Somehow, once in a while, we get a hit. Then the smart thing to do here is considered to be taking that hit, turning it into a franchise, and living off it. So I went to watch the film thinking they were going to write some loosely connected story to this one, somehow tie it together, and torture me. But to an extent, they had actually written a proper story that had a reasonable connection between Part 1 and Part 2.
In Part 1, the heroine is a big wrestler. Without telling the hero, they get her married to him. At one stage, when that truth comes out, it becomes a problem, and the two of them end up separating.
In Part 2, the family that came together is now living happily. After many years, they have a daughter who’s old enough to go to school. The heroine works in the Railways under the sports quota. If she goes to work, who will look after the child? So the hero stays at home as a house husband and takes care of the child. Because of that, people in the town tease and mock him. But he doesn’t worry about any of that. For the sake of his child and his wife, he continues doing that without caring about what others think. There isn’t any ego clash between them. But because of circumstances and situations, clashes begin to arise between them. Now a situation comes where they have to separate. What happens after that is the story of this film.
Before I went to watch the movie, I read some reviews online, which were mixed to positive. Such as by Senthil Perarasu from TamilYogi, which gave the film 3.75/5 which is a mixed to positive review, and after reading and watching some video reviews, I made up my mind to try this movie, and it was not bad.
They’ve made this film by mixing sports drama with a bit of family and a bit of comedy. There are some general rules for a comedy film, right? You shouldn’t expect logic. You have to leave your brain in the parking lot before going in. So I also went in with that mindset.
There was a story in this film to some extent. They had written a screenplay for it too. There were many good scenes throughout the film. But the disappointing part was that they didn’t make those good scenes really good.
To be specific, they take the child to school and are advising her not to hit anyone. At that very moment, some rowdies enter the school and start creating trouble with the teacher. At that point, the audience watching the film should be waiting, saying, ‘Hero, go hit them.’ When the audience is expecting it, if the hero goes and beats them, it’ll work well. Instead, he immediately rushes in, hits them, and comes back. They’ve handled a moment where the hero should have scored in a very casual way.
They’ve handled many scenes like this casually. They’ve also shot them in a hurried manner. Other than that, the film had many good scenes.
The scene where he dances with the lady teacher, then the scene where the hero tells a story to the child, then the court scene where the hero talks about men’s problems, then the scene where Ramya Krishnan says, ‘If you give a man a divorce, he’ll run away, marry someone else, settle down, and live happily. Instead of giving him a divorce, you should keep him trapped and make him suffer.’
After that, the film was going well. Suddenly Yogi Babu entered. Just when I thought, ‘That’s it, the film is over,’ they didn’t give him much of a chance to spoil it. The film somehow escaped from him, wandered here and there, and finally ended at the right place. In the end, the very girl who competed against the heroine delivered the finishing touch, and it turned out to be a fitting ending for this film.
If you watch Gatta Kusthi Part 1, you can’t really predict the story. But in Part 2, you can more or less predict what is going to happen next in the story. However, compared to the first one, this film has many emotional scenes, and they work to a certain extent.
If you don’t expect too much logic, leave your brain aside, and just want to go to a movie with your family over the weekend, then you can definitely watch this film. If you do, women and children will enjoy it. There won’t be much damage for the men either. The film won’t be too boring. They’ve filled it up reasonably well with comedy here and there. It’s definitely not a bad film.