This past December gave us a self-aware and fleet-footed film #MinnalMurali, as well as a superficial and unoriginal new series #Decoupled. Here is @RajaSen's verdict about the month gone by.
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It is hard not to be taken in by #MinnalMurali, set in a tiny village with immense character, featuring a roguish and gullible hero, played by the preposterously charming Tovino Thomas, who said it fulfilled his one childhood wish – to become a superhero. indianexpress.com/article/entert…
#MinnalMurali is a joyous, self-aware and fleet-footed entertainer, which also questions the absolute nature of good vs evil the genre is founded on. Even Mahatma Gandhi would cheer for that. The actor behind the supervillain can attest to that. indianexpress.com/article/entert…
#MinnalMurali therefore — discreetly — indicts its audience even as it entertains them. We are the ones labelling our heroes and our villains, being generous to some and leaving others wanting. indianexpress.com/article/expres…
On the flipside, @RajaSen’s biggest problem with #Decoupled is not that the writing is juvenile or that the acting is childish or that the jokes belong to the WhatsApp-Uncle genre, but a distinct — and painful — lack of originality. indianexpress.com/article/entert…
#Decoupled tries its hardest to be like Larry David’s superb Curb Your Enthusiasm. Yet while the Curb jokes are always on David, Madhavan plays the obnoxious, foot-in-mouth Arya with superiority and swagger, as if he were the hero.
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