Before the independence of India, the Indians were sent to Malaysia to work as workers without a compulsory wage. Still, silence remained without resistance. But after the arrival of Kabali, the fighting man who lived his life fighting for India and its independence, rejected that principle and devoted his life to fighting the aggressors and their injustice.
Kabali makes a half-hearted attempt to rescue the actor who has now become the stuff of Gifs, but its filmmakers are unwilling to pass up the opportunity to milk Rajinimania for as long as they can.
As a tribute to a demigod of cinema, "Kabali" doesn't need anything but Rajinikanth on screen for it to work. As a film though, it falls short on many levels, and no amount of hero worship can cloak that fact.