Before we get to the real review, allow us to deliver a shout out to director Chella Ayyavu and producer-actor Vishnu Vishal, now no longer always for making Gatta Kusthi however for giving Aishwarya Lekshmi her personal She Baashha (like She Hulk).
Aishwarya Lekshmi`s Keerthi is a State-stage wrestler. Let`s say she is pretty “unconventional” as a woman: she is outspoken, has quick hair, is continually wearing contemporary-day clothes (that's T-blouse and tune pants), and worse goals of wrestling for the country — isn`t she pretty unconventional for a Tamil cinema heroine? She has goals. She speaks her mind.
Keeping with Tamil cinema`s tradition, Keerthi receives a “hero(ic) introduction” in which she receives her opponent right all the way down to the floor and plays her submission flow withinside the ring. It`s a win for Keerthi. At domestic, she loses though. She returns domestic to look a groom`s own circle of relatives awaiting her — in case you are reminded of Mouna Ragam, you're spoiled via way of means of Tamil cinema. The boy`s own circle of relatives rejects her obviously — now no longer due to the fact she is tomboyish, the boy`s mom says, “Post marriage, mom-in-regulation and daughter-in-regulation fights are natural. I don`t need to be slammed via way of means of her.” You roll at the floor, laughing.
Keerthi is a champion withinside the ring; she is most effective visible via way of means of her gender outside. She is, in reality, what Tamil cinema heroes have continually been: a saviour. When Keerthi`s sister receives pressured via way of means of a collection of boys in her college, she beats them to a pulp or even receives a Master-like combat scene interior a bus. Men are scared of Keerthi for her “poisonous masculinity”. Oh, the irony! Naturally, guys reject Keerthi for numerous reasons; their ego being on the top.
Enter Veera (Vishnu Vishal, who's clearly suitable while he's taking a step again in the ones comedic portions. He comes throughout as pretentious withinside the mass scenes). Like the call suggests, he's the archetype of a really perfect male who desires his wife-to-be submissive and timid. While that being the priority, he rejects girls for the second one and maximum essential condition: he desires an archetypical gramathu ponnu with a single, lengthy plait, and an training history now no longer extra than Class VIII. You recognize in which that is going.
Keerthi`s own circle of relatives hides the reality that she is a graduate, doesn`t have lengthy hair, and is a wrestler, to Veera and his own circle of relatives. They input right into a marriage. And after a bumpy start (Keerthi`s father catches his chest. He receives a coronary heart attack. The subsequent scene he's in a hospital. Seriously? In 2022?), we get a hilarious film that most effective receives tiring while it takes itself and the target target market too seriously.
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Vishnu Vishal on `Gatta Kusthi`: I need to amplify my marketplace in Malayalam and Telugu Speaking of which, my predominant grouse with Gatta Kusthi is the target target market to which it caters to. And there are clean fractions on this case: the cleaning soap opera-looking target target market in order to hoot and cheer on the wife-beater and home abuse jokes, and the multiplex-going city organization that thinks `Singapenney` is a feminist anthem and believes Bigil is a ladies empowerment film. Gatta Kusthi, while it speaks to the previous category, is pretty exciting notwithstanding normalising some risky thoughts and traditions. But while it switches into the `Singappeney` zone, it will become an uneventful lecture.
