Blue and ocher. Blue walls and blue outfits contrasting with rust, mud
and bronzed faces. As a visual person it was the color scheme of Super
Deluxe which caught my eye first. The urban grime becomes sell-able with
swishes of blue and bronze.
The vibrant color palette is just a start. Super Deluxe is all about
quirkiness. I have noticed that all off-center movies have signature
color schemes. In Thiagarajan Kumararaja, the director of Super Deluxe, Kollywood has the beginnings
of their own version of Wes Anderson or Coen Brothers.
You do not see many such successful idiosyncratic attempts in Indian
regional language movies. A recent one I remember is Lijo Jose
Pellissery's Double Barrel. Despite being a visual treat it couldn't
impress the box office with its colorful eccentricities.
Hollywood and Asian movies excel in this genre like Little Miss Sunshine,
Everything is Illuminated, any Wes Anderson or Coen Brothers' movies or Takeshi Kitano
movies.
Super Deluxe is a multi-narrative film. If done right, it will keep the
audience hooked to the very end till it leads them to a confluence of
all the threads. Super Deluxe mixes the multi story threads with a fair
dose of hyper-reality and delivers a winner.
The cast is impressive. Vijay Sethupathi as the trans-gender woman is
probably a first for Tamil movies. He crushes it. Fahadh Fazil, Samantha
Akkineni, Bhagavathi Perumal, Mysskin, Ramya Krishnan and all the kid
actors excel in their roles.
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