Indian 2 (2024)
Indian 2 (2024)
Indian 2 (also marketed as Indian 2: Zero Tolerance) is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language vigilante action film directed by S. Shankar, who co-wrote the script with B. Jeyamohan, Kabilan Vairamuthu and Lakshmi Saravana Kumar. The film is jointly produced by Lyca Productions and Red Giant Movies. It is the second installment in the Indian film series and a sequel to Indian (1996). Kamal Haasan reprises his role as Senapathy, an ageing freedom fighter turned vigilante who fights against corruption, alongside an ensemble cast including Siddharth, S. J. Suryah, Rakul Preet Singh, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Bobby Simha, Vivek, Nedumudi Venu, Kalidas Jayaram, Samuthirakani, and Jagan. In the film, Senapathy returns to India from abroad after over two decades to aid a group in dealing with corruption in the country.
Plot
The film occurs 28 years after its predecessor. For more information about the predecessor's plot, see Indian.
Chitra Aravindhan, along with his three friends, Aarthi, Thambesh, and Harish, runs a YouTube channel called "Barking Dogs" in Chennai. They focus on creating parodies and political satires, which garner them lakhs of views. However, when a young lady dies by suicide, the team discovers that corrupt officials caused her death. In response, they protest, demanding justice. The police arrest them, but they eventually get bailed out by Chitra's girlfriend, Disha. She lectures them that they cannot single-handedly change the country. Soon, they launch a campaign titled "Come Back Indian," believing that only Senapathy, alias "Indian Thatha," can put an end to the corruption once and for all.
Nilesh, one of Chitra's friends, spots Senapathy in Taipei and discovers that he is running a martial arts school there, teaching Varma Kalai. Nilesh persuades him to return to Chennai, which he eventually does, by using his senior mentor's passport. CBI officers Pramod and Elango attempt to capture Senapathy upon his arrival in India but fail. Senapathy initially starts targeting corrupt individuals in Gujarat and Odisha. Then, he urges his followers and the public to expose corrupt individuals in their respective states through peaceful means, inspired by Gandhi's principles, while he will uphold the ideals of Subhas Chandra Bose. He emphasises that people should prioritise addressing corruption at home before tackling external issues. Senapathy also tearfully mentions that he had killed his own son, Chandrabose "Chandru", in 1996 as he too was a part of the corruption in the country back then and was directly responsible for the deaths of 40 school children due to a brake fault in their school bus. This results in everyone getting motivated; Chitra and his friends then start monitoring their parents' activities to uncover any wrongdoing. Harish visits his uncle's motel and discovers they serve stale food to customers. Thambesh finds out that his brother-in-law, Nanjunda Moorthy, accepts bribes from customers, as does Aarthi's mother, Kanagalatha. They report their findings to the Anti-Corruption Vigilance Team (ACVT), leading to their parents' arrest.
Meanwhile, Senapathy targets corrupt officials who have embezzled lakhs of rupees from the government. Chitra follows his father, Varadharajan, who works at the Anti-Corruption and Vigilance Commission (ACVC) but finds no evidence of wrongdoing. However, Aarthi's father, Thangavel, reveals to Chitra that the young woman who died by suicide was actually a victim of his own father's corruption, not the officer's. Initially sceptical, Chitra investigates and discovers the truth: Varadharajan had accepted bribes from the officer. Chitra reports this to the ACVC, leading to Varadharajan's arrest. Overwhelmed by public shame and ridicule as the wife of a corrupt officer, Chitra's mother commits suicide by hanging. Chitra gets blamed for this and he is unable to do even the last rites for his mother, and Varadharajan too beats Chitra with his slippers due to anger, without any mercy. Devastated by the incident, Chitra meets Senapathy in person near the graveyard and blames him for his mother's death and starts a campaign titled "Go Back Indian", which too becomes viral worldwide, leading Senapathy to earn the wrath of the local people.
On his way to the Chennai metro railway station, Senapathy gets attacked by rowdies but fights them back with his Varma Kalai. However, after witnessing the fight, people start beating Senapathy with slippers and cricket bats without listening to his pleas, as they still think that Chitra's mother committed suicide only due to his arrival. Pramod and Elango eventually arrive and capture Senapathy, but he uses Varma Kalai on Pramod to escape his capture, leaving Pramod paralysed. Upon admitting him to a hospital, the chief doctor informs Pramod's father, Krishnaswamy, a former CBI officer, with whom Senapathy had a conflict 28 years ago, that only Senapathy can save Pramod, as he can reverse the tissue and nerve damage that Varma Kalai inflicts on the victim, otherwise, he would die within three hours. Krishnaswamy then takes the paralysed Pramod to the court where Senapathy is being judged. Senapathy offers to rescue Pramod in exchange for his release, to which the judge reluctantly agrees. Senapathy then takes Pramod with him and leaves the court in an ambulance, promising that he will come back again.
In the end credits scene, Senapathy introduces his parents, Veerasekaran Balram and Dhakshayini, to his followers, who, like him, were also freedom fighters during the British Raj in the 1890s. Their back stories will take place in Indian 3.
Cast
• Kamal Haasan in a triple role as
• Senapathy Veerasekaran / "Indian", an ex-INA agent turned vigilant and Chandru's father and Veerasekaran and Dhakshayini's son
• Chandrabose "Chandru", Senapathy's son and Veerasekaran and Dhakshayini's grandson (flashback footage from Indian)
• Veerasekaran Balram, the warrior man, Dhakshayini's husband and Senapathy's father and Chandru's grandfather (cameo appearance from Indian 3)
• Siddharth as Chitra Aravindhan
• S. J. Suryah as "Sakalakala Vallavan" Sarguna Pandiyan
• Rakul Preet Singh as Disha, Chitra's girlfriend
• Priya Bhavani Shankar as Aarthi Thangavel, Chitra's friend
• Bobby Simha as Pramod Krishnaswamy
• Vivek as Elango, a CBI officer (posthumous film)
• Kovai Babu as the Body double for Vivek
• Nedumudi Venu as Retired CBI officer Krishnaswamy (posthumous film)
• Nandu Poduval as the Body double for Nedumudi Venu
• Samuthirakani as Varadharajan, Chitra's father
• Kalidas Jayaram as Nilesh Krishnaa
• Brahmanandam as Ramana Reddy
• Uday Mahesh as Sugumaran, Chitra's friend
• Delhi Ganesh as Health Secretary Krishna Mohan
• Five Star Krishna as Nambiar
• Manobala as Nanjunda Moorthy (posthumous film)
• Jagan as Thambesh, Chitra's friend
• Deepa Shankar as Thambesh's sister
• Nagendra Babu as MLA Parisutham
• Rishikanth as Harish
• Gulshan Grover as Amit Agarwal
• Sayaji Shinde as Balsingh
• Zakir Hussain as Dharshan Bhai
• Piyush Mishra as Kishan Singh
• Akhilendra Mishra as Madanlal Mehta
• Ganja Karuppu as Sivagnanam
• Imman Annachi as Harish's uncle and a mess owner
• G. Marimuthu as Chokkalingam, Chitra's uncle (posthumous film)
• Vinod Sagar as Kirubakaran
• Yograj Singh as Amit's Bodyguard
• Renuka as Sub-Registrar Kanagalatha Thangavel, Aarthi's mother
• Thambi Ramaiah as Thangavel, Aarthi's father
• Kalyani Natarajan as Chitra Varadharajan
• C. Ranganathan as Muthuraj
• Ravi Venkatraman as Engineer K.Kathirvel
• Cheranraj as a Police officer
• Kajal Aggarwal as Dhakshayini, the warrior woman; Veerasekaran's wife, Senapathy's mother and Chandru's grandmother (cameo appearance from Indian 3)
• Demi-Leigh Tebow in a cameo appearance as a model in the song "Calender Song"
• Guru Somasundaram as the character: common man (via motion capture)
Music
• The soundtrack album and background score are composed by Anirudh Ravichander, who is working with Shankar for the first time.He replaces Shankar's frequent collaborator A. R. Rahman, who scored the 1996 film. This will mark the second collaboration of Anirudh with Haasan, after Vikram. After the offer came his way in November 2017, Anirudh started composing for the songs during December 2017, and it took a year to complete the album. He remarked that the delay in the release of 2.0 gave him more time to work on the film's songs.
• In November 2023, it was announced that the audio rights for the film were acquired by Sony Music India. The album was officially released on 1 June 2024, which coincided with a promotional event held at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai, with the presence of the film's cast and crew and all the other celebrities.
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