Ratnam’s Baptisms (GF on Kadal)

SPOILERS GALORE! Kadal plays like a greatest hits reel of Mani Ratnam’s favorite ideas, visual devices and story threads, refracted here through the lens of a vividly realized local world. The most memorable of Ratnam’s accomplishments in this film is his very distinctive, very focused sense of place. Few of Ratnam’s works in recent memory … Continue reading Ratnam’s Baptisms (GF on Kadal)