Retro | Theatres List

The Jigarthanda director is back with Retro, starring and produced by Suriya. Like Jigarthanda and many of his other films, Karthik Subbaraj once again blends multiple genres. For the first half hour, Retro feels like a romance film (as Subbaraj and Suriya had hinted in the media), then it shifts into a gangster mass-masala with an overdose of Squid Game-type treatment, and eventually becomes so muddled that you're not quite sure what you're watching. Despite the impressive direction and clever use of cinematic techniques, it doesn't feel as well put-together as Pizza or Jigarthanda. But then,....