A still from ‘Aelay’
Director Halitha Shameem’s latest offering lacks pace but the performances and characterisation make up for it
We’ve all been talking about Georgekutty of
Drishyam 2 in the last week or so. But this week, Tamil cinema has given us a Muthukutty to talk abut.
Aelay opens with a family that has just seen the death of Muthukutty (Samuthirakani). Parthi (Manikandan) arrives there sans fanfare, emotion. He looks at the dead body of his father rather impassively, and walks around the household with no signs of being shaken up.
In some time, he's hungry and heads out to eat a plate of