Kartik Subbaraj's Mercury is dedicated to all the silent filmmakers from Raja Harischandra to Pushpak in the opening credits, and to all the victims of corporate greed in its ending credits. These two are quite different sets of people, almost mutually exclusive, and in trying to cater to both, the film ends up neither here nor there.
In an unnamed town five youngsters attend a gathering to celebrate the closing of a Corporate Earth factory that was responsible for the mercury poisoning in the town that rendered them deaf and mute. This they do by drinking, dancing to music (tho....