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Kaatru Veliyidai

காற்று வெளியிடை

2017

TypeFilm
Year2017
LanguageTamil
DirectorMani Ratnam

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An Air Force pilot — charming, narcissistic, and emotionally destructive — is captured in Kargil and held as a POW. The film intercuts his captivity with the turbulent love story that preceded it: his relationship with the woman who loved him despite everything he put her through.

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Kaatru Veliyidai is Mani Ratnam's most uncomfortable romance — VC is not a hero you root for, and the film never asks you to. It is a study of a woman's love for a man who doesn't deserve it, and the complexity of that. Aditi Rao Hydari carries the film. A. R. Rahman's score is achingly beautiful.

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