“This story is written in blood”, the first words of the trailer below promise us. Looks like it’s also written with a lot of slo-mo, eye-popping CGI crowd sequences, and glorious fringe-flipping action hero moments.
Now slaying audiences in Australian cinemas, the historical action epic K.G.F: Chapter 2 promises to go even bigger than its successful predecessor, again featuring Indian mega-star Yash as the heroic saviour Rocky.
K.G.F: Chapter 1 became the first Kannada language film to crack ₹250 crores worldwide at the box office, and Chapter 2 is likely to cause just as much chaos. Both films are directed by Prashanth Neel with big-screen bombast, dramatising the true history of slave labour uprisings in India’s Kolar Gold Fields.
Like huge Tollywood hit RRR, K.G.F. claims to follow the contours of fact, but it does make the medicine go down with some explosive editorialising. One of the villains is a fictional Prime Minister, and tattooed foe Adheera (Sanjay Dutt) is said to be largely inspired by Marvel’s Big Bad Thanos.
“The swing of a sword and the splash of blood in a battle is not to destroy”, he growls in the trailer below, “but to progress.” We’ll see what the first film’s hero Rocky has to say about that, as he swings his long side fringe out of his vision to get down to business.
The film’s producers have confirmed that there will not be a third film in the K.G.F. franchise, meaning this second chapter has to wrap everything up in a big awesome bow.
Telling a unique story of its Karantaka setting, K.G.F. is a shining star of what’s known as either Kannada or “Sandalwood” cinema, one of India’s countless regional cinema cultures. The film will inevitably arrive on streaming platform Prime Video in five languages, though: Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, and Malayalam.
