Super Deluxe - Onde as Vidas se Cruzam

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.

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.

'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.

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.