Chandramukhi 2 Review – Even Kangana’s Pleasant Extended Cameo Couldn’t Save This Extraordinary Trash

Chandramukhi 2 Review: P. Vasu decides to bring a sequel to his super hit Chandramukhi (2005) after 18 years, only to destroy its popularity. Malayalam director Fazil made a pathbreaking masterpiece, “Manichitrathazhu” (1993), so that others can copy paste and make money. But you don’t ever surpass the original masterpiece. It’s like, you can copy and paste “The Shawshank Redemption” or any other masterpiece of your choice and make a good film, but you can never match it. Manichitrathazhu is one such Indian film that’s not too popular in other markets because it comes from a small industry. There have been 4-5 remakes of Manichitrathazhu, and I don’t need to tell you how all of them fail to match the legacy of the original masterwork. Now just tell me, if everyone couldn’t match the original even after copy-pasting, then how would they even think of creating a new story as a sequel? How illogical and silly it is! Chandramukhi 2 is like, “I want to sell a new product under the brand Chandramukhi (which isn’t original) by telling the same story again as in the next chapter”. When you watch Chandramukhi 2, and I hope you survive it (like I did), then you’ll realise that you didn’t actually watch Chandramukhi 2; it was the recipe of Chandramukhi again served in a different hotel. Manichitrathazhu was made in the 90s, and Chandramukhi 2 was made after 3 decades, but the storytelling is 3 decades behind Manichitrathazhu. It’s an extremely pernicious and injurious watch. Believe me, you won’t just scratch your head; you will slap yourself for watching it.

Chandramukhi 2 is about a rich family struggling with problems in their lives, which is led by Ranganayagi (Raadhika Sarathkumar). They travel out of town and visit their deity’s temple to seek blessings and arrange a special pooja that will solve their problems. Pandiyan (Raghava Lawrence) joins them with his niece and nephew, whom the family abandoned years ago. A priest tells them they can’t attend Pooja at Devi’s temple because Chandramukhi (Kangana Ranaut) has cursed the place, and whoever goes there gets killed instantly. Pandiyan still manages to light a lamp in the temple, making Chandramukhi more furious, but he isn’t a normal person like others. It is then revealed that Pandiyan was Sengottaiyan, the man who caused Chandaramukhi’s death. Seeking revenge as Durgashtami is near, Chandramukhi possesses one of the ladies in the house before coming to her real avatar. Will Pandiyan be able to save the family from Chandramukhi’s curse?

P. Vasu has written an utterly disastrous script with literally no original moments of its own. It’s the same idea again, and the tricks are the same. Can’t imagine someone trying to use the 90s pathbreaking trick of completing revenge in 2023, and that too with a terribly outdated presentation. Manichitrathazhu/Chandramukhi was a psychological horror-thriller, as the film never presented Chandramukhi as a real ghost. Here, Mr. Vasu murdered that sentiment too by showing Chandramukhi as an evil ghost in real life. Even a medical term for personality disorder is killed here. How can you make a sequel by changing the identity of your main character? If it was so easy, then why didn’t Chandramukhi come to reality in the 90s? And gosh, what a horrible screenplay it has. The same flying people, mindless action, B-grade expression, C-grade comedy, D-grade dubbing, and exhaustingly trashy content. Chandramukhi’s backdrop with Vettaiyya and Sengottaiyan was nothing short of a Bhojpuri action flick. How can someone present ancient characters in such a manner? A vijaynagar’s king and his warrior would start fighting for a girl without even asking who she is or what she wants. Kingdoms are switched as it’s a TV channel that you can change with one click in one second. C2 is anything but logical writing. It’s atrociously bad.