This week’s column for Metro Plus on how it is quite rare to spot atheistic characters in Tamil cinema
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Modha Rathiri Movie Review: When Two Wounded People Stop Performing
I kept noticing these artificial, awkward smiles in Raja Karuppasamy’s Modha Rathiri. Watch Muthu’s (Anishma) smiles at Marudhu (Rishikanth), even though we know she would rather be anywhere else but with him. Watch in-laws smile at each other in ways that suggest neither affection nor happiness. In this film, people smile because they are supposed…