In today’s extraordinarily image-conscious world, there’s something wonderfully reassuring about a star who lets us laugh at him. Someone secure enough to let another actor take the fight, another character take the punchline, and still know we’ll be looking at him. Massive credit to Suriya for doing this film, because Scene gives us a hero…
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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…
