Did Vijay Sethupathi overshadow Vijay in Master? Here’s what Lokesh Kanagaraj has to say

It gained’t be an exaggeration to say that director Lokesh Kanagaraj has taken the Tamil movie business by storm. With his newest movie Master, he has tampered the everyday template of a mass-big-star-masala-film.
Master is an important movie in Vijay’s profession. It reveals the celebrity’s willingness to reinvent himself in order that he stays interesting to the youthful technology of the movie-going viewers.
But, part of the viewers appears to really feel that Vijay Sethupathi’s character overshadowed Vijay’s character within the movie. How so?
For starters, in contrast to most of his earlier movies, in Master, Vijay’s JD doesn’t all the time come out on high. He suffers beatings, humiliation, guilt, and private loss. On the opposite hand, Vijay Sethupathi’s Bhavai all the time maintains a dominant place. He even will get to talk a few of the greatest traces of the film. While Bhavani will get a robust backstory, JD’s previous is simply talked about in passing.

A robust villain, particularly by way of bodily prowess, has develop into a rarity in Vijay movies in recent times. The final movie, through which Vijay confronted a severe adversary, was Prakash Raj’s Muttu Pandi in Ghilli (2004). And Lokesh understands the significance of an omnipotent villain to make the hero’s character extra interesting and essential in a narrative.
If you are feeling Vijay’s character obtained a uncooked deal in comparison with Sethupathi’s in Master, Lokesh has a bit of recommendation for you. “When you watch the film, if you see Vijay, not as Thalapathy Vijay (the star), just as a character named JD, you may not feel like that,” he mentioned in an interview to Film Companion.

“When I narrated this story to Vijay anna, he knew that the hero and the villain will be equals. He also knew a superstar was going to play the villain. It only signifies his large-heartedness for doing this movie after knowing all these. This is exactly what Sethu anna (Vijay Sethupathi) also felt,” Lokesh added.
Lokesh added that if he had underplayed the villain function, it will have significantly affected the depth of the narration.
Indianexpress.com’s Manoj Kumar R wrote in his evaluation of the movie, “Lokesh had promised a Vijay film which would be very different from movies that Vijay usually does. Did he deliver on his promise? Yes. Master is the most fun, sensible, enjoyable and good looking movie that Vijay has done in a long time.”