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Though last year was rather barren in Tamil cinema, KS Ravikumar was part of one of the year’s few big releases, Naan Sirithal, which featured him as the antagonist. Fondly known for his blockbuster masala cinema, the filmmaker has slowly, yet steadily grown into the shoes of an actor over the years. With the recent Zee5 release, Mathil, it is safe to say that Ravikumar has now been promoted from the ‘hero’s father’ (Thanga Magan, Rekka) to ‘hero’. “I would rather call my part the protagonist. He is not your usual hero who fights and dances. Mathil is a simple tale of a man trying to reclaim a wall he owns from a politician,” he says.
A still from ‘Mandela’ | Photo Credit:
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Debutante Madonne Ashwin’s ‘Mandela’ is a first-rate political satire that shows how deep-seated caste is, by taking an unflinching yet unsentimental look
There is a minor detail packed in the form of a dialogue that you may miss noticing in
Mandela, that tells more about caste structure than the film. It arrives when violence breaks out between two dominant caste groups, the leaders of whom are half-brothers and are pitted against each other in the local body elections.
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