The acting is strong across the board, while costumes, production design and cinematography all serve to tell the tale fittingly.

Ambition, greed, romance and grief. This game of thrones doesn’t overshadow the people playing it.

Ratnam and his collaborators stick the landing on their gargantuan pot-boiler, and while Krishnamurthy’s world may not look as grand as it seemed, either in the moviemakers’ heads or on the page, it is big enough to get lost in.

Director Mani Ratnam once again takes the reins to this historical Indian sequel that brings together different genres of action, drama, romance, and tragedy on an epic scale.