Adirindi

Award-winning film critic Baradwaj Rangan once wrote an interesting piece. He made a claim that almost every Indian film he viewed and reviewed in the modern age was - in one way or the other – derived from the massive film catalogue of Kamal Hassan. Reading though his reasoning for said broad statement, I was mesmerized by how many of our current filmmakers indeed appeared influenced by the man's (Hassan) oeuvre.

Watching Adhirindi initially reminded me of the recent Jr NTR release Jai Lava Kusa which in turn reminded me of Kamal Hassan's own Apoorva Sahodarargal. Like Apoorv....