And she ends up lying in a hospital bed during the climax while Chandru solves the crime and closes her case. So much so that he once lectures her about the consequences of anger - like Padayappa, but with puppy eyes. Their relationship itself is utterly lacking there is no romantic or sexual tension there is neither any camaraderie nor does he have any respect for her. She is also regularly interrupted, condescended to, and insulted in front of suspects. She’s introduced with one mass scene, gun, punch dialogue etc., only to be relegated to taking notes and scheduling meetings a few seconds later. The writers are confused about whether the heroine is the lead investigator on a critical case or a subservient wife of male fantasy. The hero’s journey is a line of miraculous coincidences, dropping clues on his lap with a deafening thud. There is severe competition between the hero, heroine and the villain about who is the worst written character of all (spoiler alert: It is Robo Shankar’s). If there is any community ripe for calling for the ban of this film, it’s the cops - the way everyone proactively surrenders to the might of Vishal is rather embarrassing.Įven if you’re willing to suspend your disbelief at this, the writing jolts you awake every 5 minutes. In fact, every one from his ex-girlfriend to the city’s police commissioner, seem to enjoy his interference, taking orders from him willingly. No one questions his presence in a local investigation, within the country, during peacetime. Chandru keeps insisting that he is from the ‘military’, implying that it puts him above the state police is some invisible hierarchy. For a police procedural, Chakra takes a rather fantastical view of how criminal investigations work. Unfortunately, he can’t save the film.ĭebutante director MS Anandan’s Chakra, starring Vishal and Shraddha Srinath, is a hodgepodge of predictable twists punctuated by intolerable lectures. Thankfully, Major Subash Chandra Bose, aka Chandru, steps in to save us from the idiocy of this. She also gets her team to beat them up mindlessly, without so much as telling them what they’re being questioned for. She wastes no time in valourously rounding up dozens of poor people without probable cause - flower hawkers, gas cylinder delivery persons, newspaper boys and so on. Encounter specialist Assistant Commissioner Gayatri is assigned to the case. Serial robberies happen in posh localities in Chennai on Independence Day.