Super Deluxe: Not a wannabe!

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Super Deluxe is that kind of a film which will have you bowled over by the fact that it doesn’t try hard. This film isn’t a wannabe and portrays whatever is deemed fit for the story. It doesn’t have the ear-piercing background score which most of the run-of-the-mill South Indian films have.
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It’s a movie which has an ulterior meaning in whatever is said by the actors. It doesn’t try to break a sweat to convey the other meaning in its dialogues. The audience should have the intellect to understand the deep-rooted meaning in every dialogue and even every shot (Red palette is used extensively in the first half which means that there’s conflict being created which will be solved in the second half).
There is so much detailing in the movie that you need to visit the theater twice to understand it completely or even have a discussion about it. Red, Blue and Green palettes are majorly used to convey the different kinds of emotions each character undergoes. The beeda-scene in the second half makes you feel so claustrophobic even though you’re in a big theater. Credits go to the cinematographer for making us feel like we’re in Tondiarpet(North Chennai).
The climax of the movie makes for a great discussion with fellow cinephiles. It doesn’t mean the climax is open-ended and allows the audience to interpret it in their own unique way. We have a message being shoved into our brains. Any further elaboration on this sentence will lead to a spoiler.
Thiagarajan Kumaraja proves why he is the best person to make black comedy films. This guy knows to play around with the attention span of the audience and has us wondering if 3 hours go by so fast. The way he linked the four anthologies in the movie is so intricate and well-made that it reminds me of the cult hit, Pulp Fiction.
All in all, the movie makes for a great cinematic experience. If you’re a person who doesn’t watch Indian films and binges on Netflix for international-level content, this movie will definitely restore your faith in Indian Cinema. This movie will be equally entertaining to a person who cringes every time the hero beats up 10–20 people with his twig-like arm.
An anomaly with the movie is that no amount of review can do justice to it. This film needs to celebrated.
Period.

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