Sadhuram 2

Utter waste of time. This director has taken movie just for psychopaths.

It is illogical.

Pls don't watch this unless you need to spoil your day

There is missing of correlation.

The director seems to keep reminding us the story like in these daily serial on what happened yesterday every few minutes. He doesn't want you to forget the movie nor the story.

The editing is top notch , you will experience seizure within the movie time span.

They wanted to do a SAW Tamil version and it came out just like a Tamil version of any Hollywood movie.

I am a hardcore Saw fan. When I stumbled upon this obviously it created interest in me.. For a micro budget film this is indeed quite well made. The editing is pretty good except the cheap filters used, the screenplay could have been better.

Sadhuram 2 review: This equivalent of Saw is a treat for thriller lovers By Malini Mannath Published: 17th September 2016 04:31 AM

Last Updated: 17th September 2016 04:31 AM

sadhuram759 The film opens with two men who find themselves captive in a room, chained at the ankles and with a bloody corpse lying between them. One is photographer Vishal, the other a reputed doctor Vasu. As the two puzzled men try to find an answer to the situation they are in, they realise that a game of death had been arranged for them by a psycho-killer. Pitted against each other and in a desperate bid for survival, the two try to escape.

The film is inspired by the psychological-horror-thriller Saw (2004). The film with its inventive torture-techniques had gone on to become a seven-part franchise. It's appreciable that the director in a rare and exceptional gesture, not exactly the rule for 'inspired' versions, has given due credit to the original. It's a challenging task for a maker to recreate the scenario on Indian screen, what with it being so horrific and gory. But for a debutant, Radhakrishnan has managed to do it to an extent. gore and recreating the ambience almost faithfully, he has remained focused and made no compromises by way of dream-songs or inane comic moments. Incidentally the film is crowd-funded. It's about cleansing the society of wrong doers, teaching the insensitive and the callous the value of human life (reminds one of Seven, 1995) and giving some a second chance. The extremely raw and gory ambience there had camouflaged the inadequacies of the screenplay. But here understandably, the strong graphic violence has been considerably toned down (like the scene where Vasu tries to cut his feet with a saw) making the flaws seem a little more obvious here.

Too many characters enter the plot, each with own backstory. This back and forth narration and entry of new characters with links to the plot, is likely to confuse a viewer. The set design, the background score and the cinematography help sustain the mood and feel.

Casting freshers and lesser-known faces in crucial roles has worked to the film's advantage, as they lend a feel of raw realism to their characters. Yog Japee essays Dr Vasu with efficiency. Newbie Riaz as Vishal and Rohith as Shiva a terminally ill man, fit in adequately. In just 94 minutes, Sadhuram 2 is an ideal watch for those who love the action-horror genre.

Sadhuram 2: Gore competency Baradwaj Rangan SEPTEMBER 17, 2016 04:46 IST UPDATED: NOVEMBER 01, 2016 19:11 IST

The most curious aspect of Sadhuram 2 is the numeral in the title, which makes you wonder about Sadhuram 1. But that film is yet to be made. We are, thus, in the realm of Limca Records. Along with astonishing Indian feats like longest ear hair and fastest sentence typed by the nose, we now have the sequel to a film that does not exist. Or maybe it does. For director Sumanth Radhakrishnan has been unequivocal about the debt his film owes to James Wan's Saw. You may remember that charming film, which featured, among other highlights, a man hacking off his foot. Or what a young David Fincher would have called Biology class.

Sadhuram 2 is fairly faithful remake. Two men - a doctor (Yog Japee), a photographer (Riaz) - find themselves chained to the floor of a little room painted and lit in colours that, on a shade card, would be called Algae Green and Post-Antibiotics-Urine Yellow. That rumble you hear isn't the soundtrack. It's your stomach getting ready to hurl. But the film isn't pukey enough. It's been made palatable for Indian audiences - though, thankfully, not with dream duets and a falling-in-love track. (And the running time is a brisk 94 minutes.) But in order to procure a UA rating, the gore has been vitiated. If Saw was torture porn, Sadhuram 2 is an item number. What fun is it, pray, when you get a hacking-off-a-foot scene without the blade sinking into flesh and bone and unloosing torrents of blood? It's like a Disney movie where the cute animal sidekick has been blurred.



Genre: Thriller Director: Sumanth Radhakrishnan Cast: Yog Japee, Riaz Storyline: Two captives try to break free from a torturous game Bottomline:A 'Saw' redo that's just not pukey enough.

The back-and-forth story slowly pieces together clues and reveals why - and by whom - these men are being held captive. Cinematographer Sathish Babu does good work. There's a tonal consistency that you rarely find in these micro-budgeted films. But despite Girishh Gopalakrishnan's throbbing score, which allows you to experience the sensation of being trapped in the bass drum at a Megadeth performance, there is little forward momentum. Scenes exist on their own - they don't build into a sustained queasy-making experience. The dialogues are terribly expository, and the performers appear to have trained in the Smoke Signals School of Acting. They seem to be trying to catch the attention of people on a distant hill. Also, is there no genre the Tamil filmmaker can free from moralising? We walk in for severed limbs. We walk out with sermons.