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Thiagarajan Kumararaja has conveyed and compiled so many messages as much as possible in a movie. I am sure the might have forced to have omitted few messages due to the length of the movie.

How do you feel when you have something to say to the world and it displayed in the form of a movie, it was such a kind of a movie.

It is not easy to direct such movies without the influence of a higher intellectual.

It is high time people change their perception and start accepting realities in life.

Life is very simple, we spoil it because of our very own thoughts and deeds.

This movie is to all those who have the ability to perceive and be receptive to adapt a new life. You realise life, because you are alive !!!

Second Time: Watching it for the second time did feel a bit bored as the movie was very very slow paced, but there were few tidbits that I got to notice and few unnoticed background noises, music & dialogues. But still, it is definitely one of the differently best-made movies every in Tamil cinema.

First Time: Yet another pulp fiction kinda movie with 3 plots going in parallel with a wee bit of interesting link in the end along with a universal message that relates to life, relationships, sex, sexism, love and with a whole lot of other societal concerns. Yuvan's BGM is the SOUL of the movie. Camera angles/frames portrayed the environments realistically. Each and every characterization just feels so lively, shuttle performance by everyone. Most importantly, it starts and ends with sex. oooohhh... 😜

No doubt Thiagarajan Kumararaja's Super Deluxe is one of the masterpiece and the cult classic film in Tamil. The moment I saw the posters of Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Vengeance, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill and a picture of David Lynch at the DVD Rental store in the film, I was sold, that's when I thought this is going to be full paisa vasool padam. You're getting a full package of four Film (since it has four different story) wrapped and served on a platter.

In one of the interview Thiagarajan Kumararaja said he's afraid to write and he's lazy. Seriously...? When he can create wonders like Aaranya Kaandam and Super Deluxe when he's afraid and lazy, just wonder what would be the outcome if he's not lazy or afraid.

Take a bow to the writers - Kumararaja, Mysskin, Nalan Kumarasamy and Neelan K. Sekhar for crafting such a phenomenal story across their views on life, relationships, love, sex and spirituality. And an extra effort made by Kumararaja to hyperlink those stories along With Idiosyncratic and Palpable characters.

Samantha as Vaembu, is one heck of a performance. For the fact, she wasn't the first choice for the character, many leading actresses had turned down playing Vaembu. And now I can say, no one else could have done it better than Sam, she's irreplaceable.

And our very own Makkal Selvan Vijay Sethupathi playing the transgender women Shilpa, the episodes between him and his son Rasukutty (Ashwanth Ashokkumar) Was so pure, for sure you will fall in love with that kid. Bagavathi Perumal as SI Berlin is one character where the audience will feel like thrashing him, Shilpa-Berlin and Vaembu-Berlin scenes, will definitely fill the rage in the eyes of the audience for its own reasons. Leela's (Ramya Krishnan) dialogue towards the end of the climax, will definitely hit you hard.

Fahadh Faasil as Mugilan, Mysskin as Arputham, Gayathrie as Jyothi and the four kids. You will witness some awe-inspiring performance by each and everyone, proving their caliber. Even the minor characters, has done some stupendous job in acting.

Once you understand Kumararaja, the same lengthy and boring scenes will now slowly transit to an interesting setting. Vinod and Nirav Shah cinematography elevates the story, the color pattern, the unconventional camera angles, along with the crisp editing by Sathyaraj Natarajan, I was spellbound.

If you've already validated 'Rowdy Baby' as Yuvan Shankar Raja best in career in terms of its quality treatment and popularity, then you must Watch Super Deluxe. As they say, there's something more than that meets the eye, U1 's sound design techniques is one among that. Every minute detail that you witness in his background scoring along with Illaiyaraja songs, is something which can be considered as the added bonus to your paisa vasool ticket. And the ride ends with the compelling climax.

If one can even enjoy the steady frame for more than 8 seconds and the silence within that. Then it has to be Thiagarajan Kumararaja's Film.

If you are expecting tamil cinema to reach its highest limits, watch this movie and you will definitely find the tamil industry already reached beyond its limits. It is a pure and raw form of tamil film. I don't think anyone can cross this limits in future except Thiyagraja. perfect screenplay and script work. he deserves more than a national award for making such an exotdinary film. He shifted the whole industry to the next level with his unique and raw style. Completely satisfied.

#SuperDeluxe - This is a strict A film. Not like IAMK type but something that is very new to tamil cinema. The film is so dark because these characters are so real and it's like meeting someone you'll never meet in ordinary life. Director #ThiagarajanKumararaja, he deserves a standing ovation for writing this masterpiece, the screenplay is a high point. Maybe he'll be Kollywood's best known Screen writer.

The background set, Cinematography is all just so perfect. No compromises made anywhere.

Coming on to #Samantha, she made a terrific role. Her second lifetime best role, first is always Nithya from #NEP. #VijaySethupathy has nothing to prove here, we already know what he is. #FahadhFaasil, #Bucks, #Mysskin, small boy, 5 youngesters all gave a wonderful performance.

Overall, I would give Super Deluxe an Oscar if I was part of Jury for it's unconventional story line, something we have never seen in Tamil Cinema. The low point is, it won't work with all of the Tamil audiences. I have a friend who diagrees with all my points and says that 'Super Deluxe' has too many unclutural, uncomfortable scenes or dialogs involved. The problem is that the film is way ahead of our time.

But in the end of the day, a film should either be Art or Entertainment. This is Artainment. This is new, this is very new with Tamil Cinema. I enjoyed every frame of this masterpiece. I cannot guarantee you the same, it depends on how you react when your best friend breaks your brand new TV for seeing something awful in it. So, go and experience this yourself.

Masterpiece would be the perfect word to describe this cult movie. It holds you with curiosity until the last-minute and creates a great impact. All actors have played their part so well that they stay in our mind as characters of the film. Vijay sethupathi as Shilpa, he has given an extraordinary performance as usual. Samantha as Vembu proves that she is a star performer. The end voice over philosophy creates a greater impact and connects all the important dialogues in the movie which points to message that the director tries to conveys to the audience. Thiagarajan Kumararaja deserves National Award! Close to 3 hours movie without songs must watch guys!

Yet again thiagarajan kumaraja proved he is king in story telling. Starting from story, props, visual, BGM and every actor role were apt and movie is definitely worth watch for more than once !

Out of the world , no words to describe , this movie will definitely discover a completely new term/genre.

Only a person who breathes cinema can create this. amazing actors , performances , and gripping scenes , fabulous screenplay proving all film directors and cinematographers that screenplay can also be made this way.

Perfect details , shots , every shot makes us travel through the journey of the characters in the film , that intense , the choice of shots would be very normal but details in each of the shots conveyed a lot of stories establishing the connect and reality .

Treat for cinema lovers!!

Tamil movie industry is definitely in good form. Coming up with bold and beautiful films. Super deluxe is another amazing movie from the industry. I would have given 9 star but the director dragged many scenes and made it in to a 3 hours and I don't know why. There are many scenes you will feel bored. Yet a film you should go and watch in theater for its beautiful images. Director used mostly Dark blue and red and it was amazing.

'Super Deluxe' is everything you cannot have imagined by just knowing the title. With Thiagarajan Kumararaja at its helm, I did have high hopes. The writing duties were shared between the director, Mysskin, Nalan Kumaraswamy, and Neelan K. Sekar - all promising names in the industry. The cast featured Vijay Sethupathi (in the role of a transwoman as revealed from the poster), Samantha Akkineni, Fahadh Faasil, Ramya Krishnan, Mysskin, and more. Did they deliver? A colossal YES!

Super Deluxe is 'Pulp Fiction' for Tamil cinema in 2019. There are four different storylines happening parallel to each other, yet somehow connected in ways that you would not see coming. Each frame in the film boasts a colour palette that only someone like Kumararaja can come up with. The opacity is rich and saturated, the costumes match the backdrops well, and the colour tones employed by cinematographers Nirav Shah and P.S Vinod blend with the respective storylines brilliantly.

The screenplay will throw a good number of surprises (and twists) at you. It's too random to be placed into a single genre (or even two, or three!). The undercurrent of black humour is certainly there, but when the emotions take centre-stage, the viewer has no choice but to treat it with the seriousness that it whole-heartedly deserves. The list of whammies include someone dying during sex, a husband/father returning to his household in the most unforeseen way possible, a porn movie that had more than what its teen viewers bargained for, and lastly, the struggles of a wife (of a self-proclaimed godman) whose son has met with an unruly accident.

When it comes to performances, Super Deluxe holds nothing back. If we thought Sethupathi did not have any more challenging roles to do (we last saw him as Ayya in Seethakaathi), here comes yet another cracker of a show by him, conveying the troubles that a transwoman often has to deal with in our world. This has to be Samantha's best performance as yet, where she doesn't play second fiddle to a masala/sappy hero, instead putting forth an extremely layered act. Fahadh Faasil is tremendous as usual, playing the husband who has to deal with his wife's infidelity and the unlikely aftermath that follows. The actors who portray the schoolboys who decide to watch porn at home on a regular working day, certainly show promise.

However, the top honours go to Ashwanth Ashokkumar, the child actor playing the kid excited to meet his dad for the first time. This has got to be one of the most well-written, well-acted child characters in a movie in a very long time. He wants to prove to his friends at school that he's not a 'test-tube baby', and he does not care who or how his father has turned out to be in the meantime. And it is for this reason that the finale of this particular segment felt the most satisfying (and heartwarming at the same time).

Leela's (Ramya Krishnan) segment could have been edited better, but the aesthetics (just look at Arputham's prayer hall and how it has been designed) are impressive. Everything in the movie has been placed to impeccable detail - the police station set, the gangster's house that the boys barge into, the roadside walls (filled with movie posters and a parked lorry with rusted barrels and what-not) and many many more. When it comes to comedy, Mugil's (Fahadh) monologue with his wife's dead lover will surely leave you in splits. Berlin, the cop, has been played with the right amount of nastiness by Bucks.

This isn't your regular commercial potboiler - it's a film with substance, well-rounded characters, tasteful aesthetics, clap-worthy performances, a moving background score (by Yuvan) and subtle philosophy. Watch it with people who appreciate cinema for the flagrant/expressive art-form that it is.

#SuperDeluxe As a guy who likes experimental movie as much as the next person, this one is a weird movie! To be fair something's in the plot was totally unnecessary and could have been avoided for a little bit more realistic approach. Sorry to go way ahead, this is a good experiment but may be a little bit too experimental to patiently sit and watch at theatre! So super deluxe is a movie that happens mostly on a day with some stories and events barely intertwined together. There are mainly three stories happening together and how it is resolved forms the crux of the story. The movie shines due to tremendous and good perfomances of its cast. And the movie is clearly very dark with almost all characters having a grey shade. First half of the movie was so good that i didn't feel it was a long half, but second half just shift into a weird turn! I still couldn't get over some of the things they adapted story wise, it may be something writer have to come up with to make a story ends well but really could have been something else and more realistic to make the movie works even better. Believe me you'll understand what I'm saying after watching the movie. It is difficult to speak more about it without spoilers!. As usual great performance from Vijay Sethupathi. Fahadh was good. And i really liked women in this movie. They were never apologetic about the decisions they made with their life, they know what they needed at the moment and go for it! It's great to see that on any movies. There are many things and philosophies portrayed throughout the movie which can only be discussed with spoilers. So it is a movie worth of discussions. And in the end it may not be everyone's cup of tea, and may find 3 hour runtime bit of a stretch! But even though i felt a bit lengthy during second half, it is something worth watching once. May be if you're not sure watch it after DVD release but by all means go for it if you love seeing a weird crazy dark movie!

The movie sets the ball rolling big time even as the credits come on. Then the background music makes it's entry and then the first scene comes on, and you know, you are in the right theater.

The deep saturated colors in the frames feel so perfect. The frames are simply perfect - framing characters in different portions of the screen, amazing.

There are so many scenes that are so hilarious. The screenplay has a welcome randomness to it. You typically never know what is coming.

Vijay Sethupathi is on a push-the-envelope mode. While the old man in Aadhi was challenging, the transgender in Super-Deluxe is a level up in challenge and well met.

Fahad Fazil, on the other hand, did not have a better role here than say "Kumbalangi Nights". Some of his scenes almost did not work, while many others did.

Bagavathi Perumal, who plays the subinspector has given a truly outstanding performance, potentially surpassed only by Vijay Sethupathi, who had the advantage of much more challenging scenes.

Yuvan Shankar Raja has done amazing background music work, that stands out with it's subduedness. Music is used to enhance comedy at multiple points, and the result has been fantastic. Also, unique sound choices to communicate scene tension, background sounds to give a feel of a lot of background action.

Multiple unpredictable random threads of stories sometimes come together in such a sudden tight knot that you can almost touch. Randomness is just awesome.

The thread on god did not connect with me and hence, scenes on that thread, felt like a drag, as also did some scenes of Fahadh.

Deeply philosophical as well, the movie presents various valid stands. I did not quite like the ending as much, as it was a bit preachy. On the other hand, leaving it abstract might not communicate enough.

A must watch and more. Worthy of multiple watches for sure.

A must watch movie in recent days. What a movie making man. Cinematography is another level; Every shot is like a painting; Camera angles are highly innovative. The background score is equally well made. Hats off to the whole team, you nailed it!

Never seen this kind of movie. This movie will touch every Genre of movie style.

Super Deluxe (2018) : Brief Review-

Not a Deluxe Story but a Super Storytelling. Tamil Cinema finally has an experimental artistic cinema loaded with massy black comedy even though the script seems to have lost sense couple of times. Nevertheless, the script is not everything everytime, sometimes it's about storytelling and Super Deluxe is indeed a Super Storytelling. 3 different stories of disasters happening somewhere in this crazy world, each one having different circumstances, different ratios, different lifestyle and different reasons meet each other in accidental way to prove God's crazy direction in this filmy world. Out of those 3 stories, one is about a transgender, one is about a group of boys leading to heavy disasters after their horny desires and the third is one another a married couples. The first one is Highly appreciated one because it talks about society's point of view about a Transgender and how the victim's thinking changes after his family gets into support him. The 2nd one is full on fun yet shocking because lusty and horny boys can have delusions too and so it could be one related to your family. Here some fictional and non realistic elements like Aliens and Christening were contradictory. The third one is the weakest one as it tells this poor vision of husband accepting his wife's sexual affair after she's forced to have another one in front of him. However this bad story is saved by the accidental link to the 2nd one which had ended on solid note. Overall, one story is Great, one is Good and one is average. Acting, cinematography, dialogues and direction are fine and nothing much down here. It's the writing which could have had more sense in the begining because they go beyond intellectual ends in the climax with some mind shattering facts about God, World, Human Life and Death. A Classic for me with 2-3 conditions.

RATING - 8/10*

By - #samthebestest

Even before the trailer was released, I was excited to watch this movie. When you watch movies like 'Aaranya Kaandam', the kind of experience you get will only leave you to crave for more. And when you hear names like - Vijay Sethupathi, Fahad Fazil, Ramya Krishnan, etc., your expectation grows multi-fold. Finally, when the trailer was released, it did perfect justice to the huge expectations. But will Thiyagarajan Kumaraaja deliver? Will the audience understand the genius that is Thiyagarajan Kumaraaja? Or Will 'Super Deluxe' succumb to the same fate of 'Aaranya Kaandam'? We'll get to all of these in a bit but first things first.

Vijay Sethupathi - I don't know how many know about this trivia - Maniratnam was mighty impressed with the performance of Mohanlal in 'Iruvar' that, after he finished the shoot, he told Mohanlal - 'I will never direct you again.' And he never did. The reason I'm citing this here is that I don't think Vijay Sethupathi should ever act again. He should retire after this movie. I have seen a handful of world movies in different languages but I'm telling you no actor/acting in the world can compare to what he has done in this movie. Being a diehard Kamal fan from childhood, I can tell you this is a role that even legends like Kamal, Mohanlal cannot do justice to. And the fact that Vijay Sethupathi made it look so easy and convincing speaks volume about this man's talent, dedication, and hard work. The role of a lifetime. You might have already seen Vijay Sethupathi as a transgender in the poster and in the trailer, but nothing will prepare you for what he has done in the movie. I repeat, NOTHING!

No one can depict the beauty of a Father-Son relationship in the most unimaginable situations like Thiyagarajan Kumaraaja does. Take Aaranya Kaandam for instance - In one of the many parallels in the movie, we get a Father-son duo - A once rich Father who lost all his money in gambling and let down his family and a son who is angry on his Father for letting him down but will never give up on his Father. In fact, his dialogue sums up the entire movie. When a Police ask, "Unga appa na unaku avlo pidikuma da?" he replies, "Apdi lam illa. Aana avaru enga Appa..". In Super Deluxe we get a similar parallel, A transgender father who left his family, and a son who never gives up on his father no matter how much he is angry on him. And so beautifully the son sums up their relationship when he utters this dialogue while crying - "Nee aambalaya iru, pombalaya iru.. Aana enga kooda iru..". The boy who plays Vijay Sethupathi's son has just nailed it.

Fahad Fazil plays a poor husband. Poor - not as in financially poor, but the most unfortunate kind of poor - 'has-a-wife-who-cheats-him-with-his-college-boyfriend-in-his-own-bed' type of poor. I don't know who wrote Fahad Fazil's character, but the bits and pieces he speaks then and there just like that, have very deep meaning and Fahad Fazil being the brilliant actor he is, has portrayed his character with so much conviction. Samantha plays a modern-day girl who always finds her torn between culture, tradition, desires, love, and sex. The best thing about Thiyagarajan Kumaraaja is that he never judges - even his characters. He leaves it entirely to us. Whether what Samantha did was right or wrong? Well, that depends on WHAT is right and WHAT is wrong.

Only Ramya Krishnan can play the role of a 'Rajamatha' and a 'Sex worker' so convincingly that we actually think these are two different actors. Such a versatile actress! In the center of all this hoopla are the 3 boys whose actions who, like a domino effect, sets up the entire story in action. The story begins and ends with them. Whenever they come on screen, complete entertainment guaranteed. These 3 might be the best find of this year.

P.S Vinod and Nirav Shah are the cinematographers for this movie. I don't know who did which part but the shots in all the parallels are beautifully composed that you may want to watch the movie again just to appreciate the amount of work that has gone into cinematography. There are blurred shots (For example, there is this one shot where the camera focusses on a group of ants blurring what happens in the background when the everyone in Vijay Sethupathi's family is debating about his gender) , POV shots, Out of Focus shots all of them perfectly placed to give you the feeling that you are watching the stories unfold right next to you, that you are a silent spectator to all the craziness that is happening.

Yuvan has once again proved that when it comes to BGM he is, THE BOSS. The music complements and in most scenes elevates the entire scene into a whole new level. Ilayaraja has once said the best background music is no background music - meaning the composer should know when to use BGM and when to be silent and let the dialogues take the center stage. It's no surprise that Yuvan has mastered that craft. In a dialogue-heavy movie like this and with masterclass dialogue writer like Thiyagarajan Kumaraaja, Yuvan has perfectly blended silence with his amazing BGM. The success of Yuvan's BGM is making you hum the hit Ilayaraja Number, "Anthiyila Vaanam.." after watching the movie.(You have to watch the movie to understand this). Like Karthik Subbburaj, Kumaraaja also uses many Ilayaraja songs to set the mood of a scene and it works charmingly.

Back to where we started.

Has Thiyagarajan Kumaraaja delivered? - Hell Yeah!!

Will the audience understand the genius that is Thiyagarajan Kumaraaja? When the title card read, 'A Thiyagarajan Kumaraaja movie' there were whistles and claps (A feat only a handful director like Maniratnam, Karthik Subburaj has managed to achieve).

Will 'Super Deluxe' succumb to the same fate of 'Aaranya Kaandam'? I don't think so. You ask me how? The applause and whistle at the beginning for Thiyagarajan Kumaraaja had turned into a standing ovation after a 3 hour long running movie when the title card read in the end - 'Written and Directed by Thiyagarajan Kumaraaja' (Again, a feat only handful directors like Maniratnam, Karthik Subburaj has managed to achieve).

So, is 'Super Deluxe' a social movie that speaks about the struggle of transgenders? Is it a Drama that mocks the society and its so-called (double) standards? It has a cat and mouse game - Is it a thriller? Is this an Adult comedy? It has aliens in it - Is it a science fiction movie? Is the too much darkness in the movie makes it a neo-noir? Or is there even a genre that this movie can fit into? The beauty is that you cannot fit 'Super Deluxe' into one genre. It's beyond all that. All I know is 'Super Deluxe' is a rare masterpiece. A once in a lifetime experience. A movie that transcends all the boundaries of film making, a movie that makes that thrills you, excites you, makes you laugh, smile, cry, whistle, think and in the end sticks with you, forever.

Super Deluxe, to me, is a drug. A drug that makes you an addict and cures you of the addiction, all at the same time.

From Rasukatti to Suri everyone is lived there charecter so incredible

This movie was going really well untill suddenly during the climax it gets preachy. Criticizes the righteousness of humans only by adopting a self-righteous attitude. I don't disagree with what it preaches but the manner in which it does so lacks congruence. If the premise is that that humans are not really qualified to know what's truly right then it is contradictory to suggest that something is not wrong. Which strangely enough, the movie suggests at one point but apparently their own philosophy eludes them. The movie criticizes how people create narrative to fit their own convenience but does that very same thing itself.

Nonetheless, if this preachiness of how this one particular worldview and its system of morality is absolutely correct and the rest is just a result of ignorance is overlooked it is a good movie and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

Not all multi-layered, dark, slow movies are classics. This is one of the miserable wannabe masterpiece attempts aimed at impressing wannabe art cinema lovers. Exploring topics of irrelevance and unnecessary dillydonging nightmarish life moments to get the x factor. Avoid and u wouldn't have missed anything

I usually don't write reviews but this was waste of my time. I love Vijay sethupathi and his movies , his acting was pretty good in this movie but other than that movie was very long and long shots for stupid reason. Some side characters Like the cop' s acting was horrible. I thought they're trying to fill up too many genres in one movie and got it wrong. It might have some good message how we should treat transgenders and shouldn't be a taboo for society anymore. I didn't find any thrilling moment. Sorry guys didn't felt like it was a masterpiece. Maybe I didn't understand the whole concept of the movie.

If anyone can explain the whole movie to me, I'll appreciate it and give it another watch and try to Understand it. Thanks

The best movie to watch this year..you will have a great experience...want to tell more about the film....but can't tell now... It's simply awesome 👌👌