VIP 2 Review: How do you take a story where the villain has been vanquished and the hero emerged triumphant forward? Soundarya Rajnikanth and Dhanush attempt an answer in Velai Illa Pattadhari-2. These scenes in Raghuvaran’s home play at a different pitch than in the previous film... from closer-to-real-life tone, we now get almost spoofy episodes, with the focus clearly on generating laughs. Vasundhara isn’t an Amul Baby like the previous film’s antagonist, and proves to be quite a match for Raghuvaran. The other aspect where the film falls woefully short of the original, is in the songs, which lack the catchiness of Anirudh’s numbers in the earlier film.

Source: Times of India August 11, 2017 06:41 UTC