Michael | Theatres List

To make a movie about betrayal and revenge set in the '90s Mumbai underworld, you'd start with the perfect cast - say, Vijay Sethupathi, Gautham Menon or Varalakshmi Sarathkumar. You would then go to great lengths to perfect the visual aesthetics of the era, with golden yellow hues, plush furnishings and dusty industrial settings, showing men with mullets chain-smoking in the relentless monsoon rains. Finally, you would add some grungy music to create a mood of danger and tension. Story, setting, sound and cast - Ranjith Jeyakodi's "Michael" had all the ingredients to make a great drama. Or at....