– Gandhi vs glamour. A man leaves family for whiskey & power. Vikram’s suave older gangster + Dhruv’s punk energy — Karthik Subbaraj’s most stylish film.

– Weird, wild, and wonderful. Alien porn, trans revenge, dead husband returns. Yet every frame is art . Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s dialogue and Vijay Sethupathi’s Shilpa — peak cool.

– A director, a gangster, and a disaster. Meta before meta was cool. Karthik Subbaraj’s stylish noir-comedy with Bobby Simha’s Assault Sethu — one of the most iconic negative roles ever.