Mersal

Atlee gives Vijay three roles here, a village chief, a doctor and a magician, and folds them into a single revenge line whose real subject is private hospitals treating patients as revenue. What happened to the film ended up louder than the film. In October 2017 the BJP demanded cuts over a scene criticising the newly introduced goods and services tax, in which Vijay's character contrasts Singapore's seven per cent rate and free treatment with the twenty-eight per cent Indians pay for nothing of the kind. Figures from Rahul Gandhi to Kamal Haasan defended it, and the row only enlarged the audience. Who it is for: viewers who enjoy Tamil commercial cinema and star vehicles that touch politics directly. Who it is not for: anyone without patience for three hours, songs and scale.