![]() Pudhupettai charts the rise-through-the-ranks of a hoodlum named “Kokki” Kumar (Dhanush), and the early parts of the film show Kumar as a schoolboy. ![]() ![]() They’ll watch Mani Ratnam’s Aayitha Ezhuthu, where Madhavan’s lowlife is presented in impressively art-directed squalor, but they can’t bring themselves to watch 7G Rainbow Colony because the hero says the heroine regards him as “ therula kadakkara saani.” In other words, crassness in a character is apparently okay, but crassness in the presentation isn’t.īut this crassness is the key to Selvaraghavan’s work it’s why his films get under your skin like a nagging itch. A lot of people mistake Selvaraghavan’s movies for low-class movies - that is, the movies created for the sweepers and the factory workers and the ayahs and the auto drivers. I know I’m treading on thin ice here, but at the heart of this is the whole high-class versus low-class business. I’ll tell them he’s the most excitingly raw filmmaker in Tamil cinema today, that even if his films don’t hold up as a whole there are enough individual moments of brilliance - but they just won’t go to his cinema because of the kind of lowlives his protagonists are. ![]() – I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE who won’t watch Selvaraghavan movies. Selvaraghavan and Dhanush reunite in a lowdown and dirty tale of a gangster from the slums.
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