Seethakaathi

Set against the backdrop of live theatre and it's dwindling, Vijay Sethupathi sets the ball rolling for the unfolding of an artsy slow-paced movie. With ample opportunity for showcasing theatrical performances, multiple different actors present mind blowing evenly interspersed performances, elevating the movie like a slowly rising tsunami. Vijay Sethupathi has given a brilliant performance and established his character's aura to last the movie. Multi-layered treatment of the movie transcends layers across the stage drama, the movie and the audience easily and masterfully. With masterful presentation and some amazing natural acting, the movie puts forward a bold postulate pretty convincingly. Slowly shot long scenes communicate the drudgery of movie making pretty well. However, somewhere down the line, the concept was pushed a bit too far and the movie lost me. There were scenes that rolled by, disengaged. However, there were sheer strokes of brilliance in the beginning of the movie. Just like the awesome potential of the movie Joseph did not get it's deserved due with a preachy court room ending where the movie just reads out in plain text what it wants to say, this movie took the exact same approach. A judge to read out concluding remarks much like a vote of thanks.



Vijay Sethupathi's makeup work has been impressive. It is a pretty unique movie but does not really offer any incisive insights that it promised at it's start.

An interesting fantasy story which is new to tamil cinema. A fiction can go in any dimension and it's one of that kind. Vijay Sethupathy's drama artist performance is not justifying enough esp. In dialogue delivery part. Director's approach of dragging scenes like a typical Tv serials is disappointing. Background music is is good and blends with scenes well. Hats off to the director for bringing out best in every supporting actors.

Having an big hero and a strong cast you expect a big performance from the cast and a plot which supports it. This movies thrashes all the stereotypes and has it's own path , never seen a movie of such kind , the movie is still a bit length on the run time and very tiring due to it , yet it gives a strong message and nuetralizes it.

Vijay sethpathi's 25th film seethakathi.But role of a hero is very less.It is disappointing their fans.

The film has a very original premise and idea but the crew simply could not build a storyline and screenplay with it. The cast is outstanding and rarely do you see a movie with no lead actors perform so well.No Vijay Sethupathy is not the lead actor here but the idea of his existence is. The comedy is very good and the actors truly excel which is one reason you are not bored despite the complete lack of a plot or screenplay. Still I would recommend a watch and I heard that from today a edited version with 23 mins cut is being released.