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Tamil Film(with English subtitles) Review
Johnson Thomas
Long drawn yet interesting!
Film: Super Deluxe
Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Fahadh Faasil, Samantha, Ramya Krishnan, Mysskin, Gayathrie, Naveen, Vijay Ram, Abdul Jabbar, and Bagavathi Perumal
Director: Thiagarajan Kumararaja
Rating: * * ½
Runtime: 176 mins
Super Deluxe, sounds like a condom variety but Thiagarajan Kumararajan’s Tamil thriller has nothing to do with latex intimacy even though it is quite a ribald, counter-strike against traditional film making. The film is a segmented combination of plots that begin to merge towards the end. While the film has an over taxing runtime of 176 mins., it manages to stay entertaining for most of it though. Kumararaja’s second feature, has taken quite a while, coming after his critically acclaimed feature debut “Aaranya Kaandam” (2010. Kamaraja’s work therefore is not run-of-the-mill mainstream goulash. It has a unique indie vibe and is trendy and sardonic in its expository illumination.
The high school boy, alternatively referred to as Milk Carton or Egg Muffin, hesitantly asks the lady in the DVD store that caters to Bollywood and Hollywood cult classics, among others, “Got porn, Madam?” Unflustered by his stuttering request, she hands him a DVD which just happens to have one of his fellow viewers’ mother featuring in it. That boy vents his anger on his friend’s TV set and the group now have to find a way to replace the damaged set. Of course the boy is enraged. In another plot strand we see a married woman(Samantha Akkineni) indulge in sex with her boyfriend - who ends up dead in her bed. And in the next we see a father return home transformed as a woman. There’s a gangster who is quite vocal about his viewing preferences, and we are also treated to a close encounter with a young woman appears to have a lot to hide.
While the writer, also the director, uses sex as a trigger to push his characters towards a bigger merge, the references are all implicit rather than explicit. The language is also a little more colourful than what we see in mainstream Tamil movies.
The narrative consists of a chain of cosmic-comic events that go extreme within a short span of time. The unshorn storylines suddenly begin to get curt, finding shape and substance along the way. Thiagaraja’s narrative is spread-eagled over time, and gets even more unbearable as the minutes start ticking in your mind midway through the film. Diverse Movies get homage as source material, lending the film an uneven, scraggy tone that seeks to shock and awe even through its over-extended wildly extravagant expansiveness. Dark comedy, ominous thrills and cuts and swathes through uneven pathways exist in a multifarious narrative bound together by coincidences and interconnections in contemporary Chennai. Cinematographers P.S. Vinod and Nirav Shah use a vibrant stream of colours to enhance the vivacity of this experience. Samantha Akkineni, Fahadh Faasil make some of the moments here, memortable. Forget about the mangled climactic stretch, this film has a vibrancy that is inveigling!
Johnsont307@gmail.com
Film: Super Deluxe
Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Fahadh Faasil, Samantha, Ramya Krishnan, Mysskin, Gayathrie, Naveen, Vijay Ram, Abdul Jabbar, and Bagavathi Perumal
Director: Thiagarajan Kumararaja
Rating: * * ½
Runtime: 176 mins
Super Deluxe, sounds like a condom variety but Thiagarajan Kumararajan’s Tamil thriller has nothing to do with latex intimacy even though it is quite a ribald, counter-strike against traditional film making. The film is a segmented combination of plots that begin to merge towards the end. While the film has an over taxing runtime of 176 mins., it manages to stay entertaining for most of it though. Kumararaja’s second feature, has taken quite a while, coming after his critically acclaimed feature debut “Aaranya Kaandam” (2010. Kamaraja’s work therefore is not run-of-the-mill mainstream goulash. It has a unique indie vibe and is trendy and sardonic in its expository illumination.
The high school boy, alternatively referred to as Milk Carton or Egg Muffin, hesitantly asks the lady in the DVD store that caters to Bollywood and Hollywood cult classics, among others, “Got porn, Madam?” Unflustered by his stuttering request, she hands him a DVD which just happens to have one of his fellow viewers’ mother featuring in it. That boy vents his anger on his friend’s TV set and the group now have to find a way to replace the damaged set. Of course the boy is enraged. In another plot strand we see a married woman(Samantha Akkineni) indulge in sex with her boyfriend - who ends up dead in her bed. And in the next we see a father return home transformed as a woman. There’s a gangster who is quite vocal about his viewing preferences, and we are also treated to a close encounter with a young woman appears to have a lot to hide.
While the writer, also the director, uses sex as a trigger to push his characters towards a bigger merge, the references are all implicit rather than explicit. The language is also a little more colourful than what we see in mainstream Tamil movies.
The narrative consists of a chain of cosmic-comic events that go extreme within a short span of time. The unshorn storylines suddenly begin to get curt, finding shape and substance along the way. Thiagaraja’s narrative is spread-eagled over time, and gets even more unbearable as the minutes start ticking in your mind midway through the film. Diverse Movies get homage as source material, lending the film an uneven, scraggy tone that seeks to shock and awe even through its over-extended wildly extravagant expansiveness. Dark comedy, ominous thrills and cuts and swathes through uneven pathways exist in a multifarious narrative bound together by coincidences and interconnections in contemporary Chennai. Cinematographers P.S. Vinod and Nirav Shah use a vibrant stream of colours to enhance the vivacity of this experience. Samantha Akkineni, Fahadh Faasil make some of the moments here, memortable. Forget about the mangled climactic stretch, this film has a vibrancy that is inveigling!
Johnsont307@gmail.com
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