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      Kadal

      2013 2h 44m Romance Drama List
      Reviews 32% 50+ Ratings Audience Score A wayward youth believes that bad will triumph over good. To prove his point, he implicates his classmate who is good hearted and god fearing, into a case of adultery and murder after several years. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Not exactly a great movie but Gautham Karthik has a bright career ahead. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member MANI RATNAM - i spit on ur grave Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member The fact that this film is a critical and financial flop, is saddening, as this was easily one of the rare genuinely "good" Tamil films. With beautiful visuals, fairly good performances, a story with emotion and themes, beautiful music provided by A.R.Rahman, and essentially actually quite innovative, as far as Tamil cinema goes. Mani Ratnam makes commentaries on religion, particularly Christianity, and does a modern adaptation of Jesus Christ along the way. The characters all feel like genuine people (a rarity for Tamil Cinema), and thus, there was actual emotional investment. The romance aspect genuinely worked. I particularily admired one scene where there was jazz music to indian dance, while a boy sings about why a girl is messing with him and BOY did it work! When you sit back and look at the film, it's basically a large masala-like story being jammed into a small and poor location and, it sure does work, how? Mani Ratnam. There were some scenes that were just so gracefully done, that you could feel that you are viewing the film of a man who genuinely has an appreciation for the art of cinema. Ratnam does a fine job at displaying accurately how these villagers lives are and he actually explores categories, I don't think I've ever seen a tamil film do! Of course, there are flaws, like the fact that there were parts where A.R.Rahmans music was so loud that parts of the dialogue were hard to hear, the story could have gone in a much more unconventional route, there were 2 INCREDIBLY silly scenes involving some techno music and bad people being bad, the tonal shifts were a bit irksome(not as bad as the tonal shifts for most Tamil films though), and the film kind of loses itself in the last quarter. Never the less, it's a good movie but it seems Tamil Cinema is not ready for such things...oh well. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Nice story line and songs Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Storyline is minus. Cinematography and music is awesome. Mani need to avoid making some dull scenes Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Though it is better than Ravanan, Mani Ratnam has nothing new to offer in Kadal... The story is not compelling and the characters end in a vague manner! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      J Hurtado ScreenAnarchy A film made all the more disappointing in the end because of how well it starts. Nov 6, 2017 Full Review Simon Foster sbs.com.au The richness of his vision suggests that the 57-year-old Ratnam...was invigorated by the energies of his young cast and the thematic opportunities of Kadal's classic good vs. evil premise. Feb 28, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A wayward youth believes that bad will triumph over good. To prove his point, he implicates his classmate who is good hearted and god fearing, into a case of adultery and murder after several years.
      Director
      Mani Ratnam
      Screenwriter
      Jeyamohan, Mani Ratnam
      Genre
      Romance, Drama
      Original Language
      Tamil
      Runtime
      2h 44m