Vijay Sethupathi

With ‘Super Deluxe’, Is Thiagarajan Kumararaja Today’s Angry Valmiki Trying To Imagine ‘What Would Happen If Rama Comes Back Home, After Exile’?

Posted on May 21, 2019May 24, 2019
by Hariharan Krishnan

Why did Kumararaja not make this critical look of the Ramayana even, slightly apparent? Are great filmmaking artists supposed to hide their anger in a giant exhibition of formal and tonal cinematic metaphors?

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Tangentially Speaking: Super Deluxe – Racing Past Heroism And Gender Divides

Posted on April 24, 2019May 2, 2019
by CS Venkiteswaran

The stories in Super Deluxe are of the here and now. They do not begin with ‘once upon a time..’ and end with ‘they lived happily thereafter..’.

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Super Deluxe Movie Review: A Unique, Ambitious, Insanely Detailed, Blessedly Amoral Drama That’s As Epic As It Is Intimate

Posted on March 29, 2019April 25, 2019
by Baradwaj Rangan

Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s spectacular second film lives up to the hype – but you may want to watch it first before reading a single review

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I Asked Mani Sir To Not Come To The Dubbing Studio: Vijay Sethupathi

Posted on March 27, 2019March 27, 2019
by Team FC

“I don’t know what method acting is I don’t want to know. An actor is someone who has to behave according to the director’s comfort,” says the actor as he explains his process

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I Believe My Characters Exist. They Are Not Imaginary: Vijay Sethupathi

Posted on March 21, 2019April 6, 2019
by Team FC

There was a wall that was separating me from Shilpa. I just couldn’t break that wall

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Petta Movie Review: A Treat For Fans Of The Star Makes You Wish It Had Also Been One For Fans Of The Director

Posted on January 10, 2019January 10, 2019
by Baradwaj Rangan

Jigarthanda and Iraivi were sprawling stories but there was a sense of a gradual buildup, the sense of the narrative noose being slowly tightened. But Petta looks rushed and even the Karthik Subbaraj flourishes come off like affectations

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Seethakaathi Movie Review: When Cinema Pays A Moving Tribute To A Life On Stage

Posted on December 20, 2018January 28, 2019
by Vishal Menon

What makes Seethakaathi special is not its story, which traces the twilight years of a man who lived (and died) on stage. It’s the ingenious manner in which the film uses techniques of ‘pure’ cinema to take us closer to the stage

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Seethakathi Trailer Talk: Vijay Sethupathi As ‘Ayya’, An Ageing Superstar Who Is Bigger Than His Stardom

Posted on November 21, 2018
by Team FC

Director Balaji Tharaneetharan’s fascinating trailer introduces to us a character who seems to enjoy the shadows more than the beaming spotlight

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Director C Prem Kumar On The Candlelit Nights That Fuelled The Writing Of Trisha’s 96

Posted on October 11, 2018
by Subhakeerthana

‘There are many Rams out there,’ he says, explaining the purer form of love his film represents

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96 Movie Review

Posted on October 4, 2018April 11, 2019
by Baradwaj Rangan

C. Prem Kumar’s film, starring Vijay Sethupathi and Trisha, is a refreshingly unsentimental post-breakup love story, elevated by superb performances

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Chekka Chivantha Vaanam Movie Review

Posted on September 27, 2018April 11, 2019
by Baradwaj Rangan

Mani Ratnam’s film is a surprisingly generic gangster saga that feels like a six-hour epic reduced to “highlights”

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