Aditya Shrikrishna

Independent Film Critic

Aditya Shrikrishna is a Independent Film Critic from Chennai. Aditya’s writings on cinema have appeared in The Hindu, Senses of Cinema, Frontline, OTT Play, Mint Lounge, FiftyTwoDotIn, The New Indian Express, The Quint, The Federal, Vogue and Film Companion among others.

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Vettaiyan

Action, Crime, Drama (Tamil)

(Written for OTT Play)

A Tiring Film From A Tired Rajinikanth

Fri, October 11 2024

With Vettaiyan, filmmaker TJ Gnanavel concerns himself with several issues at once. It is like walking into a multi-cuisine restaurant and not a single dish is done well.

There are always visual and grammatical cues to determine the origin of any kind of cinema. In India, it differs with language and region but there is one kind of image that is not exactly the pride of Tamil cinema. Simplistic and overused in the last thirty years, its progenitor is probably director Shankar though the image draws power from the long history of Tamil Nadu in post-independent India.

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