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Venkat Prabhu and Kajal Aggarwal’s digital debut ‘Live Telecast’ is a lesson on the Horrors of Horror Template 101
Whichever way you look at it, horror is a genre that is dead in Tamil cinema, barring the obvious exceptions like Mysskin’s
Pisaasu, Milind Rao’s
Aval and Ashwin Saravanan’s
Game Over that tried to break away from the genre conventions. Had it been another filmmaker, you wouldn’t care.
Live Telecast is by Venkat Prabhu. That is what hurts the most. It is not that Venkat Prabhu hasn’t made bad films. Even in those films, you could see the filmmaker’s stamp throughout