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Kuthiraivaal

  • 2021
  • 2h 5m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
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Kuthiraivaal (2021)
An alcoholic bank employee Freud (38) from Chennai has to solve a strange mystery: why did he wake up one morning with a horse's tail? To figure out the mystery behind the horse's tail, he embarks on a journey through his dreams, illusions and memories encountering several peculiar characters. A transient woman Van Gogh takes us to a time when dawn broke over trees and mountains, not houses of stone. Meanwhile, there is a brutal murder, with the identity of the victim and perpetrator a riddle.
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Horse tail This movie made me to think lots of thoughts and movie have a lots of stuff of culture thoughts.Horse tail This movie made me to think lots of thoughts and movie have a lots of stuff of culture thoughts.Horse tail This movie made me to think lots of thoughts and movie have a lots of stuff of culture thoughts.

  • Directors
    • Manoj Leonel Jason
    • Shyam Sunder
  • Writer
    • G. Rajesh
  • Stars
    • Kalaiyarasan
    • Aadhira Pandilakshmi
    • Anjali Patil
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    303
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Manoj Leonel Jason
      • Shyam Sunder
    • Writer
      • G. Rajesh
    • Stars
      • Kalaiyarasan
      • Aadhira Pandilakshmi
      • Anjali Patil
    • 17User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Kalaiyarasan
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    Aadhira Pandilakshmi
    Anjali Patil
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    Anand Sami
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    • Stewart Koteeswaran
    • Directors
      • Manoj Leonel Jason
      • Shyam Sunder
    • Writer
      • G. Rajesh
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    9sldsaikumar

    Very different experience but slow and confusing.

    It would be Better if the screenplay is little fast and understandable.

    Excellent cinematography

    Good sound designing

    But iam waiting for another film like this .
    3rajaccie

    Not for me !

    Onnume puriyile! Shabbbaaaa. Thookam.dhaa vandhadhu. Donno what the director is trying to convey . Tried Something different with "dream comes true" but Sema bore . 3/10.
    5karthikkumaravel-52567

    Decent attempt. Unengaging screenplay.

    This movie overall looks dope. New and decent attempt. Pradeep Kumar did a great job with the background music.

    If the movie was cut short to 1.5 hrs without songs and more engaging screenplay, then I might have liked it.

    Since hero has a tail, he need to act like an horse humping. But he overdid it. Kalaiarasan's mannerisms irritated me more than the film.
    6samxxxul

    Defies Conventions: A Cerebral Trip From Tamil Cinema

    The last time i was mind blown for staging in an Indian arthouse was for Pushpendra Singh's The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (2020) and Ronny Sen's Cat Sticks (2019). I can add few more titles which standout for it's fresh filmmaking like the works of Prantik Basu, Aditya Vikram Sengupta's Jonaki (2018), Ekta Mittal's Birha (2018), Achal Mishra's Gamak Ghar (2019), Ridham Janve's The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain (2018), Arun Matheswaran's Rocky, Koozhangal by PS Vinothraj and finally one of my favourite Varthamana (2018), directed by Umesh Amshi with late actor Sanchari Vijay. Kuthiraivaal is added to the list now and i must say this film is a labyrinthine that combines the weird with the banality of the everyday and ultimately raises more questions than answers. The tail of existence is told in a Kafkaesque style mind trip that leads to a series absurd moments, but occasionally loses itself in its own pretensions and feels like a random collage of abstract and surrealistic visual elements. I know this sounds like a recipe for pretentious disaster but there are genuine efforts in the filmmaking that turns this awkward undertaking into a total cerebral experience. In few scenes i could recollect films of Latin American arthouse filmmakers, even Georgian director Tengiz Abuladze, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Eduardo Nunes's Unicórnio (2017) and some Béla Tarr. There's so much to say but i'll leave it here, maybe revisit this again. I don't recommend this to every moviegoers, it will be a tedious watch to sit through and seem like a boomer uncle going through existential crisis. Like my Rocky (2021) review, i want to end it by requesting only the passionate/serious cinephiles to support this experimental effort and spread the word.
    7nallaiah

    Reality with Loop holes hidden in dream

    The film is an exceptional fantasy thriller but a bit fantasy not that much of fantastic experience it gives.. Kuthiraivaal- the story it comes to deliver to us is about the dream chasing the hero of the story and about how it influences him.

    Though director made a good screenplay yet it wasn't enough for a comman man to understand this one in a short duration..it needs a little more to understand and particularly enjoy the movie and there were many loop holes in this movie but it was overcome by the confused story..the climax was made clear yet to make that the director had gave us a difficult story plot to clear the climax Overall- the movie had many new things and a bold direction and trying to give a new experience to the world class audience but still in edge to satisfy the local audience.. If that could have made clearly then it could be a great fantasy and fantastic thriller.

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    • Release date
      • March 4, 2022 (India)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Language
      • Tamil
    • Also known as
      • Horse Tail
    • Production companies
      • Neelam Productions
      • Yaazhi Films
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