‘Good Bad Ugly’ trailer breakdown: All the references and easter eggs in Ajith Kumar’s upcoming actioner-OxBig News Network

A still from ‘Good Bad Ugly’
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The makers of Ajith Kumar and director Adhik Ravichandran’s Good Bad Ugly have finally released the film’s trailer, and if you think you caught all those little easter eggs and references, here are some that you might have missed.

The trailer begins with a shot of women dancing on a cruise ship named Babel Wave. We also get a close-up of Arjun Das’ character who seems to be playing the main antagonist in the film. After a couple of shots of Arjun Das and Raghu Ram dancing, we get a glimpse of Trisha, followed by the rest of the supporting cast, which includes Prabhu, Sunil, Prasanna, Redin Kingsley, Priya Prakash Varrier, Jackie Shroff, Yogi Babu and Shine Tom Chacko.

Arjun mouths the first dialogue of the trailer, which has references to Ajith’s yesteryear hits Varalaru and Villain. Someone also goes through a series of photographs which feature Ajith’s stills from his films Paramasivan and Billa. Similar to the flashback portions shown as animated slideshows in the director’s Mark Antony, we get a slew of illustrated images featuring Ajith in his look from Amarkalam.

The first shot of the actor has him in a toned look with a pendant similar to the one he wore in Dheena. The next one has the actor in his usual black-and-grey hairdo inside a car. As the camera pans, making the actor’s ‘thala’ juxtapose over mounted horns and we get a remix renditition of the famous ‘Oththa Roova’ track from the 1996 film Nattupura Pattu, we hear Arjun saying, “This is my f***ing game”, a direct reference to Ajith’s line from Mankatha.

Following a slew of action shots, we get Trisha saying how Ajith’s character had earlier pushed her father out of a moving car — another reference to Mankatha in which the actor does the same. From the man himself, we get a line on how he left the habit of smoking for himself, gave up drinking for the sake of his wife and put an end to violence for his son, which he would not mind resorting back to in order to save his son. It’s safe to assume that the film’s plot could be about a retired gangster who is forced to take up arms when his son’s life is threatened.

After Kabali, Malaysian Tamil rapper Darkkey Nagaraja makes another cameo appearance as his famous ‘Puli Puli’ song plays while carnage ensues, courtesy AK. Ajith follows it up with the trending Tamil pop-culture ‘Irunga Bhai’ line followed by the ‘card mela 16 number’ line made famous by those spoofing fraud, phishing phone calls.

What follows is a medley of action set pieces with Ajith once again quoting a line from his yesteryear film, and this time, it’s the ‘Kai irrukum’ dialogue from Dheena. If the inclusion of Priya Prakash Varrier and Jackie Shroff wasn’t a surprise already, what comes as a bigger surprise is the cameo of Simran. The actor, who had previously starred alongside Ajith in several films like Vaalee and Aval Varuvala, last teamed with him for Unnai Kodu Ennai Tharuven in 2000, making the upcoming film their reunion after 25 years.

A few glimpses also hint at the usage of de-ageing techniques, and Adhik might probably opt for animated sequences to show the past life of AK, the retired gangster. Considering how the announcement video of Good Bad Ugly‘s teaser release date opened with the famous Money Heist house, which was known as ‘The Toledo House’ in the Spanish series, and a police car sporting the ‘Policia’ sticker used in a scene, we can assume that some sequences are shot in Spain. With the inclusion of Darkkey Nagaraja and Arjun’s tattoos hinting at him being a Malaysia-based gangster, we could also expect some scenes there, which would also make for a killer Billa reference.

With a long list of references and easter eggs laced throughout the trailer, it’s a given that there will be tonnes more of it in the film which is set to be released in theatres on April 10.

If you still haven’t caught the trailer, check it out here: