Gangers movie review: An in-form Vadivelu and Sundar C keep this light-hearted, simplistic yet trite film afloat | Movie-review News
Gangers movie review: Sundar C is a rather enigmatic filmmaker who understands the kind of nuanced conversations around cinema on social media, and still makes a film that would invariably be contentious in such a space. In fact, in a recent interview, Sundar C said that his films don’t have a lot of bloodshed, voyeuristic camera angles, double-meaning dialogues, and glamour for the sake of it. But then, Gangers is like an antithesis to his belief system as the film has bloodshed, voyeuristic camera angles, double-meaning dialogues, glamour for the sake of it, and… oodles of humour that salvages the film whenever it dips into unsavoury territories. Gangers is essentially a heist film, but takes its own sweet time to reach here. The path towards this aspect of the narrative is filled with a lot of hits and misses when it comes to the unending barrage of jokes. The entire first half of the 150-minute film is more or less the set-up, almost like the first act. It feels we are looking at a mishmash …
