Michael Review

‘Michael’ is one of the films that had high expectations ever since it was announced as a pan Indian gangster flick. The trailer shed more light suggesting a violent love story that upped the ante as well. Whether the film which was released today justifies its hype remains to be seen.

The film opens up with the caption “After the climax” where an old man Swamy (Ayyappa P. Sharma) is beaten up badly by a gang and questions him about a recent killing of a don amidst a bloodbath. Swamy in true “KGF” style starts giving buildups about the one man army who did it and the flash back unfolds. Michael {Sundeep Kishan} comes to Mumbai in the 90s at the age of 13 in search of his father who murdered his mother. He catches sight of him in a court and when he tries to murder him with a knife he instead ends up saving the life of a dreaded don Gurunath (Gautham Vasudev Menon). The don assigns Michael to one of his aides Swamy (Ayyappa P. Sharma). Many years later there is a bid on Gurunath’s life by rival gangs in which he is trapped with no escape but a grown up Michael saves his life once again. A grateful Gurunath makes him the head of a chain of bar businesses. The don then sends Michael to Delhi to kill the kingpin who planned his assasination and his daughter to take revenge. Michael ends up falling in love with the girl Theera (Divyansha Kaushik) and becomes Gurunath’s number one enemy. The rest of the screenplay is a virtual bloodbath and you can easily guess who is the last man standing.