This film is nuts. It opens with the owner of the largest coffee shop in Himachal Pradesh fighting a hyena (which he later tames), features more brutality than most Western action films, completely dispenses with logic and physics, and still finds time to include a musical routine with hundreds of dancers. In addition to the CGI hyena, we also get a hilariously bad CGI horse and a dreadful CGI eagle. Oh, and the hero is a murderous ex-drug-dealer who has been lying to his wife for twenty years.
Joseph Vijay plays Parthiban, whose life as husband, father and coffee shop proprietor is thrown into disarray when he shoots dead five vicious criminals who threaten his daughter's life. Hitting the news, Parthiban comes to the attention of crime-lord Antony Das (Sanjay Dutt), who is convinced that the man is his son Leo, who he had believed to be dead. Das tried to kill Leo as part of a sacrificial ritual to guarantee success, and now he wants to try again...
Don't go into this one expecting realism - that goes out the window with the hyena in the first scene; Leo is utterly ridiculous and requires suspension of disbelief from the outset. The plot is derivative (similar to graphic novel A History of Violence) and the script is laughable at times, but if over-the-top action with stereotypical characters and lashings of brutality is what you're after, then the film should satisfy. I certainly had a good time with all of the silliness (the motorcycle/car chase is just crazy) but feel like the film started to run out of steam a bit towards the end, stretching out the whole 'Is he Leo or isn't he?' thing a bit too long.
6/10. Worth seeing for Vijay's huge hair and the terrible songs on the soundtrack (I'm Scared had me creased up).