Ko 2
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| Directed by | Sarath |
| Produced by | Elred Kumar Jayaraman |
| Written by | Bakkiam Sankar (dialogues) Raja Ram (dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Sarath |
| Story by | Sarath Anand Ravi (base story) |
| Starring | Bobby Simha Prakash Raj Nikki Galrani Bala Saravanan |
| Music by | Leon James |
| Cinematography | Philip R. Sundar Venkat M. |
| Edited by | Kevin |
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R. S. Infotainment
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Running time
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128 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
| Budget | 150 million |
Ko 2 (English: King 2) is an Indian Tamil political thriller written and directed by Sarath, who earlier worked as associate director for Unnaipol Oruvan and Billa II. The film is being produced by Elred Kumar and features Bobby Simha and Nikki Galrani in the leading roles, while Prakash Raj reprises his role from the first film. A stand-alone sequel to the successful 2011 film Ko, the film is likely to be released in April 2016. The film's story is said to be inspired from Telugu movie Prathinidhi.[1] It has shades of Tamil Movie Desiya Geetham released in 1998.The film released on 13th May 2016 to positive reviews from critics.
Plot
A man, Kumaran, (Bobby Simha) kidnaps Chief Minister Yogeeswaran Prakash Raj and demands the police to make the government give him his withdrawaled money, which the bank tor and a few cents that a medical shop had to give. When the Chief Minister asks about his motive, Kumaran narrates his story. During the same time, State Minister's son Bala Saravanan is found unconscious by the police and when he is woken, narrates his story of Kumaran. In Bala's story, he and Kumaran become friends, but are shocked to see that they both love the same girl Nikki Galrani. In Kumaran's story, he explains how Kumaraswamy Nassar, the man who sponsored Kumaran was killed by a politician. The rest of the story reveals who killed Kumarasamy, and why.
Cast
- Bobby Simha as Kumaran
- Prakash Raj as Yogeeswaran, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
- Nikki Galrani as Priya Dharshini
- Bala Saravanan as Balathe son of a state minister and friend of Kumaran
- Ilavarasu as Home Minister
- John Vijay as Inspector
- Karunakaran as Kumaran
- Bharath Reddy
- Mayilsamy
- Crane Manohar
- Nassar as Kumara swamy
- Shan
Production
Following the success of Ko (2011) directed by K. V. Anand, 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.[2] The film, however, failed to take off and in April 2015, Elred Kumar announced that he would be producing Ko 2 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.[3][4] Bobby Simha and Nikki Galrani were revealed to be the lead actors, while it was announced that Prakash Raj would play the role of a Chief Minister.[4] Leon James, who made his debut with Kanchana 2, was signed on to compose the film's score and soundtrack.[5]
In June 2015, the team released a motion poster and announced that the film was 50% complete.[6] In first week of December 2015, overall shoot is completed. Team aimed to release the movie in the month of March 2016. But later its release date was postponed to the 13th of May 2016. Movie released on 13th May 2016 opened with full houses. Positive reviews added more screens all over and turned out as big commercial success. On the day one, movie declared as HIT. The movie has collected 4.12 Crores in first 3 days from Tamil Nadu.
Soundtrack
Music is composed by the new and up an coming music composer Leon James. This is his first music album as a composer, his first song that was released in the Tamil cinema is "Vaaya Yen Veera", which was for the blockbuster movie Kanchana 2.
The song "Unnai Matrinal" was released as a single track song as a tribute to ex-president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, it was released on the 14th of August 2015. The album was released on October 1, 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 the song "Vidaadha" was released on 24 September 2015. Behindwoods rated the album 3 out of 5 and called it "The album stays true to the film’s theme and also vouches for novel experimentation and musical feast!".[7]
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| Soundtrack album by Leon James | |
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24 September (Single) 2015 (India)
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| Recorded | 2015 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Label | Sony Music India |
| Producer | Leon James |
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| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
| 1. | "Kannama" | Inno Genga, Chinmayi | 4:52 |
| 2. | "Kohila" | Leon James, Neeti Mohan | 3:48 |
| 3. | "Vidaadha" | Vishal Dadlani, Leon James | 4:35 |
| 4. | "Ko Theme" | Instrumental | 1:17 |
| 5. | "Kannama Reprise" | Salim Merchant | 4:25 |
| 6. | "Unnai Matrinal" | Harish Sivaramakrishnan | 4:34 |
References
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- ↑ Ko 2 (aka) Ko 2 songs review. Behindwoods.com (1 October 2015). Retrieved on 2015-11-05.
