This long-gestating slice of fun approximately the successes of the world’s least ambitious individual is a likable,irreverent rideThe past weekend’s Thai Pongal festival – marking the point at which the sun begins its six-month journey northwards through the firmament – has yielded a full crop of Tamil releases. For some while, it looked like the comedy Rajini Murugan might never appear from behind the clouds. The second collaboration between writer-director Ponram and standup Sivakarthikeyan was subject to production delays and worse luck besides: its initial release date coincided with December’s Chennai floods, and a moment when those cinemas not underwater were serving as makeshift shelters. Yet the film that emerges proves so spirited that one concludes no deity could hold it back. Certainly,the packed matinee crowd I saw it with appeared delighted it had arrived.
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Source: theguardian.com