Sattendru Maarudhu Vaanilai

What could have been a charming nod to his affection for the actor-politician turns intolerable as you realise that he is trying to imitate Vijay in an unironical manner. Yogi Babu dulls the cringe by making jokes about it. But it is not quite enough. We get second hand embarrassment as Jai gets increasingly bold trying to reaffirm his “affection” for and “association” with Vijay. Someone needs to remind Jai that the Tamil audience likes him enough to not expect such desperate measures. Sattendru Maarudhu Vaanilai is what happens when a typical Tamil murder mystery screenplay gets affected by the ‘brainrot’ virus proliferated by short form content, and mutates into a two-hour-long chain of one bizarre decision after another.