My heart sank when, at the opening of Manikandan’s Aandavan Kattalai, these words flashed on screen: This film is meant to create awareness. The story revolves around the attempts of debt-ridden Gandhi (Vijay Sethupathi) to get a fake passport, fly to London, and make pots of gold. whose desperation drives him to dishonesty, and who then realises that to turn honest again he may have to adopt more dishonest means. In other words, like Manigandan’s first film, Kaaka Muttai, this is a comedy of desperation. Entertainment that actually is about something, which actually says something – it’s the elusive grail Tamil filmmakers keep chasing.

Source: The Hindu September 23, 2016 11:26 UTC