'Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi is back with 'Kaali' '. ^ Anupama Subramanian (25 March 2018).^ 'Successful female directors of Tamil cinema'. ^ 'I'm an atheist, my daughter wanted a photo: Udhay Stalin on Vinayagar idol tweet'.^ 'A goal away from politics for Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin's grandson Inban Udhayanidhi'.^ 'Popular Indian football club signs Tamil Nadu CM Stalin's grandson Inban Udhayanidhi'.'Life as a woman director is tough: Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi'. Retrieved 23 March 2022.IвЂ™m tempted to think of Kaali as the film in which Vijay Antony one-upped Kamal Haasan. Oh, no, no, definitely not in terms of acting acumen, but insofar as playing a number of characters is concerned. Dasavatharam, for instance, is perhaps best remembered for Kamal playing ten characters, including that of an old woman, George Bush, and a Japanese man. In Kaali, apart from playing the titular character - a doctor who returns to India to find his parents - Vijay Antony plays a thief, a church father, and a local village head. He plays these characters in flashback stories so uninventive that you get all restless and itching to jog about for a bit, to avoid the feeling of being stuck. I could have forgiven the conceit of having the lead actor play all these characters, if competent actors had not been cast in their places. The thief, father, and village head are played by Nasser, Jayaprakash, and Madhusudhan Rao, respectively, and thereвЂ™s even a small bit at the beginning of MadhusudhanвЂ™s flashback portion, when heвЂ™s shown to be a college-goer. It isnвЂ™t every day you get a senior character artiste getting a chance to do something like this, but then again, the sprightly Yogi Babu, playing KaaliвЂ™s sidekick, throws a quick insult as the narrator, and thatвЂ™s cue for Vijay Antony to replace him in the flashback. ItвЂ™s a bizarre choice, because in these flashback narratives, KaaliвЂ™s actually trying to unearth the truth about the identity of his parents. So, you have the very uncomfortable visual of seeing the character - playing his likely father - romancing his mother. ItвЂ™s justвЂ¦ bizarre.Д¬ast: Vijay Antony, Sunaina, Anjali, Nasser, Jayaprakash, Madhusudhan RaoДЄfter the first drawn-out flashback portion turns out to be a red herring, you begin to wake up to the scary possibility that the writer-director Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi may well be toying with you, and not in a good way at all. You get introduced to backstories that turn out to be quite unproductive for the purposes of the plot. And they come with their respective climaxes, their duets.

The only way I can imagine it would have worked is if the treatment had been tongue-in-cheek. In its present state, it does very little except serve to give Vijay Antony the opportunity to try out various characters and their respective getups.

Truth be told, his range quite gets in the way of all the variety such writing is likely aimed at drawing out. You can see Kiruthiga isnвЂ™t particularly concerned about the identity of KaaliвЂ™s parents.

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