Also Read | Saiyaara and love in the time of amnesiaKanagaraj and Mukerji began their respective careers making intimate city films. ‘Cinema of interruptions’It is true that the pleasures of the city film are decidedly different from the pleasures of the action film. So, while Maanagaram and Wake Up Sid are around 2 hours 15 minutes each, both Coolie and War 2 are 2-hour, 50-minute ordeals. The introduction scenes in both Coolie and War 2 are decontextualised and arbitrary and do not necessarily belong to the world. Kanagaraj’s films can be dense, with dialogues acting as both exposition and exegesis, a set-up and a punchline.