Karthika accuses Kamal of being evil, but he never really comes across that way. Similarly, in Guru, whose protagonist is a lot like Velu Nayakan, Madhavan calls Abhishek Bachchan a beemari, a sickness of society, and you think that this moral judgement will begin to colour Abhishek’s character. But that doesn’t happen. Abhishek comes across more like a lovable crook than a cause of society’s rot. Our sympathies are with Kamal and Abhishek. Even though these characters are being indicted by Madhavan and Karthika, they are not being indicted by the movies themselves (and by extension, by the
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