Mr. Local, Sivakarthikeyan and Nayanthara’s summer release directed by Rajesh M, begins with the hero playing football in a French prison. The hero, Manohar, explains that he thought of his girlfriend and got angry, and so hit the ball hard (the implication being that he was hitting her). From this very moment onwards, Mr. Local is a sexist, misogynistic, transphobic cesspool of abuse passing for love. Manohar, played by Sivakarthikeyan, is a “middle-class” youngster, who worships his mother, loves his sister, cherishes his friends — who are also his comic sidekicks — and works at a car dealership. ), the hero asks at one point.

Source: Huffington Post May 17, 2019 13:52 UTC