Clearly, Rathna Kumar is a poet. You see it in the chapter titles. You see it in how the protagonist Sathya (Vidhu) describes Viji’s (Preethi Asrani) lips: ‘Thiruppi potta Thirukkural.’ You see it in how Rathna films a song around the beauty of physical intimacy, and in how he seems particularly interested in the woman’s…
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Kara Movie Review: A Sentimental Heist
Bank robbery, heist, a team forming, an expert who’s figuring his way around new challenges… these are all such cinematically exciting ideas. In the case of Kara, director Vignesh Raja tries to marry them with Tamil film ethos: Small-town setting, farmers, theism, Robin Hood figure… and of course, the mother of them all: melodrama, which…