Suzhal: The Vortex Amazon Prime Video OTT Platform Movie Review
Cast-;
Kathir , Aishwarya Rajesh , R. Parthiban ,Sriya Reddy ,Harish Uthaman ,Prem Kumar ,Elango Kumaravel , Niv edhithaa Sathish ,Indumathy Manikandan , Gopika Ramesh ,Latha Rao ,FJ ,Yusuf Hussain , Nitish Veera , Sant hana Bharathi , Mekha Rajan ,Palani Murugan ,Soundarya ,Navneeth Krishnan ,Yashwanth Babu ,G Ajith Kuma r , Hareesh SS , Sasi Kumar , Arun Pandiyan , Prasanna Balachandran ,Mona Kakade and others .
Crew-;
Created – Pushkar–Gayathri , Written – Pushkar–Gayathri , Directer -Bramma G , Anucharan Murugaiyan , Mu sic – Sam C. S. , Country of origin – India , Original language – Tamil , No. of episodes – 8 , Cinematography – Muk eswara n , Editor – Richard Kevin , Production company – Wallwatcher Films , Release – Original network Amaz on Prime Video , Original release – 17 June 2022 , P R O Yuvaraaj and others
Story-‘
Suzhal: The Vortex is a crime thriller that goes beyond the routine investigation and threatens to shake up the cultural societal fabric, when a crime hits a small town in India. Set against the backdrop of a unique micro-fest ival, ancient myths collide with the troubling present as we are drawn into the eye of the storm.
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Movie Review-‘;
Suzhal – The Vortex is a web series that released on Amazon Prime Video and undoubtedly, it is one of the best web series released in the recent times. The trailer of the series opened to a lot of praises from the audiences a nd critics and this series is worth all the wait. Directed by Bramma and Anucharan, the series has been written and created by Pushkar and Gayatri who are popular for making Vikram Vedha, one of the blockbuster films of Tamil film industry. Here is our review of Suzhal. Director duo Pushkar-Gayathri’s latest web series Suzhal is an investigative thriller. The usually sleepy Sambaloor is gearing up to stage its biggest event of the year — the nine-day Mayana Kollai festival. On the first night of the festival, two major things happen. The local cement factory bu rns down in a fire accident, and the fifteen-year-old Nila goes missing. The series follows Inspector Regina (S hriya) and Chakrvarthy (Kathir) as they follow the trail to solve the case.In a village called Sambaloor,
there lived Shanmugam (Parthiban) with his younger daughter Nila. Shanmugam works as the union leader at a cement factory. One night, the factory catches fire and many employees lose their life in this mishap. The next m orning, he realises that his daughter Nila went missing and with the help of his friends, he tries to know her whe reabouts. After learning that her sister has been missing, then comes Nandini (Aishwarya Rajesh) to begin her hu nt for her sister. Crime investigative thrillers are not exactly alien territory — especially ones that are set in slee py, small towns. The most recent example would be Kate Winslet’s Mare of Easttown. And it’s a hard space to ke ep the audience hooked and in suspense. Crime thrillers come with a caveat — we know the actual criminal only will be revealed at the end. It’s like watching Scooby-Doo; you just know that the ‘suspects’ in the middle of the episode will be bogus.
But the challenge is to overcome this by making the ride engaging and entertaining.On the other side, CI Regina (Sriya Reddy) and SI Chakravarty (Kathir) are investigating the case of the fire mishap. As Shanmugam and the u nion members were against the factory and the rules, Regina thinks Shanmugam has something to do with the ac cident. Mare of Easttown does this by making the series more of a character study of its jaded, pessimist prota gonist Mare. Suzhal does it by creating a world that is familiar but distinctive atypical. In broad strokes, the story and the characters feel familiar. But Suzhal subverts the stereotypes by simply changing the genders and ident it ies involved. For example, the brash, corrupt, intimidating and domineering police officer is a woman. The pare nt who deserts the children to join an ashram is the mother. By simply making its women flawed, Suzhal creates a universe that feels fresh.
At the very same time, they come to about Nila’s missing case and that becomes the talk of the village. Soon, Ch akravarthy gets hold of a CCTV footage which reveals that Nila has been kidnapped. After quite a lot of investi g ations, it is found that Adhisayam, the only son of Regina is the main culprit behind the crime. Digging deeper in to what would have actually happened, families of Nila and Adhisayam find out that both of them eloped but p re-planned this kidnap scene to fool their parents. But the cops, who are trying to know their whereabouts, find nothing but their bodies in a quary. This isn’t a suicide but murder. The twists don’t end here. To know what has finally happened to these lovers, one has to wait for the second season of Suzhal. It’s not just the characters. S uzhal also plays with the cinematic stereotypes that come with perceptions. Let’s take Regina, for example. Th ere’s a scene where she comes home drunk.
There’s a playful backforth with her son Adhisayam, who teases her ‘intolerance’ for foreign liquor. It’s a stereo type for Tamil cinema to present Regina as a bad mother who spoils her brat son. But is she? Aishwarya Rajesh p lays someone who has anxiety issues but is depressed due to things that were happening in her life. She’s an as set to this series. Everyone just nailed their performances. Coming to the writing part and the story, it is known that Pushkar and Gayathri worked on it. That’s when the expectations just soared higher. There’s no scene that will leave you bored here. So many twists and turns that the end of season -1 will leave you in shock and disapp ointment that it is over already. Undoubtedly, it is worth all your time.Nothing is as it seems — this forms the core theme of Suzhal. The innocent aren’t truly innocent, and the guilty aren’t who you think. The series takes a fair amount of effort to ensure its red-herrings don’t seem like it.
There are loose ends from the deceptive twists but the writing is pretty cohesive for the large part. Most of the red herrings are predictable. But even if you know them, they still work — not in terms of surprise, but as intrig uing details that add more flavour to the tale. But it’s irksome that even a series like this ends on an info/statistic card. (A small trigger warning for sexual violence wonders how he assumed people with certain socio-physical markers as ‘villains’. ‘Our training only tells us to continue such profiling,’ he adds. In another insightful moment, a transwoman observes how they don’t get readymade clothes — no one makes clothes for their needs. Even the mythological angle, the show’s weakest side, has sociological relevance. Suzhal is an addition to content that sh ows Nattar Deivangal. A character notes how devotion is intrinsically linked with brahminical values of purity and vegetarianism.
Despite its familiarity, throwaway moments and moments like these that Suzhal memorable.Let’s talk about the performances now. Every actor outdid their performance in this web series. Sriya Reddy is back to acting after q uite a lot of time and she was a delight to watch. Nobody else could have done the role of Regina with so much of ease. Kathir, once again, proved his mettle with this web series and the way he portrayed the emotions is somet hing that his fans will cherish. He is the soul of the series. After Pariyerum Perumal, Kathir returns with a pitch-perfect performance. And Aishwarya Rajesh continues her streak of winning performances. I also particularly li ked Shriya who played Regina. On paper, Regina is not very different from Shriya’s character in Thimiru. But bo th performances seem like chalk and cheese. She’s an actor we should see more often, and in more diverse roles too.Parthiban has got an amazing character to play. He played father of two daughters and the vengeance in him was shown well.
This IS MY Personal Review So Please Go And Watch The Movie Amazon Prime Video OTT Platform
Written By- T.H.PRASAD -B4U-Ratting-4/5
