To watch and forget?

Dude (Tamil, 2025)
Director: Keerthiswaran

https://watch.plex.tv/movie/dude-2025-1

This is a Gen Z movie through and through. A movie where traditional values once held in Indian films go down the drain. These values include filial piety, respect for the institution of marriage, a one-man-one-woman philosophy, and the traditional Indian belief that one is married to one's spouse not for one lifetime, but for seven. Sacred symbols are tossed out like playthings. Sex is no longer a society-sanctioned act, but a mere biological necessity. 

The movie starts with a bang. The hero, Kollywood's Gen-Z heartthrob, Pradeep Ranganthan, attends his girlfriend's wedding celebration. The girlfriend had jilted him and chose to marry an NRI to settle overseas. In the slapstick confusion of events, the hero ends up snatching the sacred thread tied around the bride's neck!

From then on, it is a comedy of errors and faux pas. Hero is heartbroken. His cousin wants to pair up, but he declines. Disappointed, she leaves town. The hero realises he loves his cousin and runs to propose.

He approaches his caste-obsessed uncle, who greenlights their wedding arrangements. Hold behold, the cousin had already fallen in love with someone else and was already pregnant. The story of the story is a whirlwind of half-truths and lies to cover the initial cover-up. The uncle @ father-in-law, is a murderer. He killed his own sister for falling in love out of caste.

Even though the whole exercise was in the name of comedy, everyone now shared the sentiment. They viewed the entire thing as mocking Indian culture and promoting a lifestyle not quite accepted by the generation before them. Changing partners is like changing diapers? Remove, clean, powder up, and discard the effluents into the bin, then move on.

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