R ARIVANANTHAM
Gatta Kusthi is a wholesome family and rural entertainer which portrays women empowerment, gender equality with hilarious touch. This bold and beautiful movie has some straight messages about modern-day marriages. The movie was well received by the audience across the globe in theatres.
Actor-producer Vishnu Vishal shows his maturity in story selection by playing second fiddle to lead lady Aishwarya Lekshmi in this family drama that conveys gender equality with strong emotion.
The film has a very interesting core idea about the modern-day expectations between married couples and how men evade basic responsibilities in a household. The film definitely qualifies as one of the most entertaining family dramas from Tamil cinema in recent years.
Aishwarya Lekshmi who played the role of Boat women in the recently block-buster ‘Ponnyin Selvan’ steals the limelight and pushes Vishnu literally to backseat for most part of the film.
Story
Keerthi (Aishwarya) plays a local wrestling champion but her parents are against her ambition as they want to get her married soon. Veera (Vishnu), on the other hand, lives off his ancestral inheritance and wishes to get married to a girl who’d make a good homemaker and doesn’t boss around with a long hair. Basically, he looks for a wife with low expectations. When he marries her without knowing the actual truth, the events that unfold between them and in their marriage form the rest of the story.
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Throughout the first half, the film does come across like a film that strongly encourages rules laid down by patriarchy for women, but it takes an interesting detour by talking about women empowerment in the second half. The director Chella Ayyavu conveyed the very interesting core idea about the modern-day expectations between married couples and how men evade basic responsibilities in a household.
Even though Vishnu Vishal plays the hero, this film actually belongs to Aishwarya Lekshmi, who’s effortless in a role that gives her so much scope to showcase her full acting potential. She also gets a well-choreographed action sequence which is nothing short of one of the best whistle-worthy moments of the film. Actor Karunas gets a solid comic character after a long gap and he’s brilliant in some of the key scenes of the movie.
The film has Vishnu Vishal and Aishwarya Lekshmi in the lead roles, while Munishkanth, Karunaas, Kaali Venkat, Redin Kingsley and others in supporting roles. The music is composed by Justin Prabhakaran and the cinematography is handled by Richard M Nathan.
The film has solid support in the form of music director Justin Prabhakaran, whose background score complements the on the face nature of the film well. The cinematography by Richard M Nathan is functional and gives the film what it exactly needs.
