Director Murugadoss is more teacher than filmmaker. In every film, he's teaching us new things. In his last average outing Spyder, he taught us about the use of technology. In Sarkar, he's taking a law tutorial.
Vijay plays Sundar Ramaswamy, a global CEO who returns to India to cast his vote, only to find that it has already been cast. This much has already been revealed thanks to the trailers, but the first half of Sarkar thankfully takes it a little further. What does Sundar do? Can his corporate wisdom help in rectifying a practise quite prevalent in Indian polls?
It is a promising premise, but most of Sarkar's first half is content with giving us legal lessons and electoral guidelines. Vijay is in good form, especially in the dialogue-heavy sequences of which there are plenty. Keerthy Suresh has little to do than give Vijay company, while Varalaxmi's character seems to have a lot of promise. Let's see what the movie holds in the second.