Playing and being played – Thoughts on Hey Ram, Virumaandi, Game Over, and their mind games!

Having a cult following of their own, Hey Ram, Virumaandi, and Game Over deviated from the stereotypical narration, providing us with highly deceptive, complex, yet carefully structured layers in the screenplay, that unveil themselves with time and patience. Here we are going to discuss certain traits and techniques these features imbibed, in providing us such an intriguing watch, and an enthralling aftertaste, even after multiple viewings.

Beast (Tamil) – an honest, no bull-shitting entertainer which engages you in parts but is disengaging on the whole.

Directed by Nelson Dilipkumar, this Vijay starrer offers us an entertainer that is straightforward without any "save the nation/people" slogans but relies more on the dialogues to entertain us than the story itself. As a result, what we get is a supposed hostage thriller, where everyone seems to take everything for granted, including the intelligence of the audience.