Ko 2

<p>A commoner named Kumaran kidnaps the , Yogeeswaran, at a private event in . The news went viral, and everyone from the to the took the issue personally. Thillainayagam appoints Santhanapandian, the of , to rescue Yogeeswaran. Santhanapandian questions Bala, a minister’s son discovered unconscious at the kidnapping scene. Bala informs Sanathanapandian that he and Kumaran had become friends when Kumaran saved him from a group of thugs, but they are shocked to see that both of them love the same girl, Priyadharshini. Bala also reveals that Kumaran willingly allowed him to pursue his relationship with Priyadharshini in exchange for arranging for Yogeeswaran to attend the retirement home event. Meanwhile, as Santhanapandian and his deputy, Arivazhagan, strive to get clues about Kumaran, Kumaran explains to Yogeeswaran his motive for kidnapping him. Kumaran was an orphan, but due to the efforts of an honest politician named Kumaraswamy, who had sponsored him, he got a good education and became a journalist with the . When he went to Kumaraswamy’s house to thank him for contributing to his life, he discovered from a worker that he had gone missing for many days. On further investigation, he learned that Thillainayagam and his sons, Kishore and Prathap, buried Kumaraswamy alive. Thillainayagam had contested against Kumaraswamy in the last election and had defeated him by rigging the vote, forcing Kumaraswamy to file a case against him and demand a recount. When Kumaraswamy refused to withdraw the case against him, Thillainayagam and his sons buried him alive. Kumaran then filed a police case against Thillainayagam and asked Kumaraswamy’s son, also named Kumaran, who was unaware of his father’s murder, to give the statement to the . However, the police inspector was Thillainayagam’s aide and informed him about Kumaran. Thillainayagam’s sons then took Kumaran on a bus and pushed him out en route. He was then run over by a lorry and died. He feels guilty that he is responsible for Kumaran’s death. To avenge their deaths, Kumaran plotted with Priyadharshini and Bala to kidnap Yogeeswaran and expose Thillainayagam slowly through false media reports using Bala’s incorrect answers during police interrogation. In the process, the police take Thillainayagam’s sons into questioning. After being tortured, they eventually accept and expose Thillainayagam as Kumaraswamy’s murderer, even giving them the location on Thillainayagam’s lawn where they buried Kumaraswamy. They dig up the spot and discover the skeleton of Kumaraswamy. The police arrest Thillainayagam, and Kumaran releases Yogeeswaran. Kumaran also escapes from his hideout and poses as a journalist, while Yogeeswaran says he cannot identify the kidnapper. Even Sanathanapandian gives up on pursuing the kidnapper, as the latter had kidnapped Yogeeswaran with good intentions. Following the success of (2011) directed by , the producers had floated the idea of a potential sequel with pre-production work beginning on a follow-up film featuring co-producer James in the lead role. The film, however, failed to take off and in April 2015, announced that he would be producing and that the new venture would be made by an entirely different team. New actors and technicians were added to the team to replace those involved in the original, with Sarath announced as the director. and were revealed to be the lead actors, while it was announced that would play the role of a Chief Minister. , who made his debut with , was signed on to compose the film’s score and soundtrack. In June 2015, the team released a motion poster and announced that the film was 50% complete. The film’s score and soundtrack was composed by , in his first solo venture after previously working on two songs on alongside three other composers. The song “Unnai Matrinal” was released as a single track song as a tribute to ex-president , it was released on 14 August 2015. The album was released on 1 October 2015, but a promo for each song was released a week before. “Kohila” promo was released 22 September 2015, “Kannama” promo was released on 23 September 2015, and “Vidaadha” was released on 24 September 2015. Behindwoods rated the album 3 out of 5 and said, “The album stays true to the film’s theme and also vouches for novel experimentation and musical feast!”. The audio rights are secured by . A critic from rated the film two-and-a-half out of five and wrote that “we get scenes that lack rhythm, flat staging and are tonally way off the mark, and actors who are badly directed”. A critic from rated the film two out of five stars and wrote that “Director Sarath’s intentions may have been good but Ko 2 is too dreary to make an impact”. of wrote that ” is a nice-enough change from the macho vigilante movies we usually get”.</p>