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So much for women empowerment

Suzhal 2: The Vortex Season 2, 8 episodes https://www.indiatoday.in/entertainment/ott/story/ suzhal-the-vortex-season-2-trailer-kathir-takes-on- gripping-murder-mystery-with-aishwarya-rajesh- 2682271-2025-02-19 This is not a continuation of the previous season, even though the main characters resume their roles, but with a new mystery to solve. While the accused remains behind bars awaiting trial, her defence lawyer, a vocal activist, is shot in the head. While the police are investigating along the lines of suicide, new evidence emerges indicating that the lawyer must be part of a paedophile ring racket. Just then, eight young teenage college girls turn up at various police stations, admitting to having killed the lawyer. In the background is a month-long local temple celebration honouring eight local deities. At the temple, the activist lawyer, a devout believer, had stopped some toes when running the temple celebrations.  Further investigations suggest that a well-executed kidn...

Like a whirlwind, the story swirls!

Suzhal (Tamil, Vortex; 2022) Amazon Prime Miniseries S1, E1-9. Just because we live in a close-knit society or have lived long enough to know things, it does not mean we are experts at predicting humans. Humans are a breed of animals that are so difficult to foretell. Sometimes, when we least expect it, the most docile of us may do something so dastardly that it altogether questions our judgement of human character.  This is the very point that this gripping crime thriller is trying to propagate. I hesitated to delve into another miniseries with nine 1-hour episodes from the get-go. But I am glad I did. This is one of those shows that puts you constantly at the edge of the seat and cannot sleep till you have completed the season. With big ambitions of dubbing it in 15 languages and subtitled in 30, I am sure t his Tamil miniseries cannot go wrong. At the Mayanakoolai carnival The series tells about the apparent eloping of two teenagers from a small town where everybody knows each o...