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| Movie Name : |
Seethakaathi
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| Cinema Type : |
South Regional
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| Release Date : |
20-Dec-2018( 5 years, 322 days ago)
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| Directed By : |
Balaji Tharaneetharan |
| Production House : |
Jayaram G.,Sudhan Sundaram,Umesh,Arun Vaidyanathan |
| Genre : |
Drama |
| Lead Role : |
Vijay Sethupathi, Archana, J. Mahendran
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Rating:3.5/5
Balaji Tharaneetharan’s Seethakaathi is one of those films which presents a unique conundrum. It is a film that needs to be discussed at length, but then, doing so would also reveal its novel conceit, and ruin some of the major surprises it has to offer its audiences. The film’s protagonist, Ayya Adhimoolam (Vijay Sethupathi) is a veteran of the stage. Acting is his life, and theatre his world.
In its first 20-25 minutes, the film gives us his journey in theatre, from the 1950s till 2013, in a rather straightforward way. We see him performing in various plays across the eras. The content of these plays changes according to their respective eras. In the 1950s, it is mythologicals, like Lava Kusa, but by the 1980s, we get a courtroom drama.
In a unique twist, Ayya, who had refused films all his life, starts ‘acting’ in them. He becomes a superstar, but when Dhanapal (Sunil), a wily producer and actor, decides to play clever, Ayya ‘disappears’, leaving his friend Parasuraman (Mouli) and family to face one of the bizarre court cases ever.