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‘Idhayam Murali’ movie review: Atharvaa and gang charm through a breezy yet underwritten film

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By Bhuvanesh Chandar Verified
| The Hindu Verified
For a good part of my adulthood, I have embraced Ilaiyaraaja’s ‘Pottu Vaitha’ song from 1991’s Idhayam, often reminiscing about the remnants of a long-forgotten emotion. Talk about the magic a good song can create in a narrative; the song not only revealed to the audience the depths of the secret admiration Raja (Murali) had for Geetha (Heera), but it also became an emotional shorthand for a love that was felt too deeply to be spoken aloud.
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‘Gatta Kusthi 2’ movie review: Double the fun, same old pitfalls

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By Bhuvanesh Chandar Verified
| The Hindu Verified
When director Chella Ayyavu’sGatta Kusthi released in 2022, it turned out to be quite a successful fixture for both Vishnuu Vishal and Aishwarya Lekshmi, becoming a hit that furthered its momentum on post-theatrical streaming.
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Bhagyaraj’s genius effortlessly melded comedy and crisis

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By Ramya Kannan, Bhuvanesh Chandar Verified, B. Kolappan Verified
| The Hindu Verified
Acknowledged as an ace wordsmith and famed for his intuitive comic timing, K. Bhagyaraj, interestingly, believed that out of crisis comes comedy. The comic track in his films does not run as a parallel track alone, but inside the main plot; it runs alongside the conflict vein, mixing drama and crisis with comedy, elevating the resolution and making it Bhagyaraj’s own. This is particularly prominent in films where he donned hero roles.
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