Gatta Kusthi Review… the screenplay felt too common
Year: 2022
Genre: Marriage, Tradition, Sports, Comedy, Drama
Cast: Vishnu Vishal, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Karunas, Munishkanth, Kaali Venkat, Sreeja Ravi, Redin Kingsley, Gajaraj, Hareesh Peradi, Shatru, Mathew Varghese
Director: Chella Ayyavu
Writer: Chella Ayyavu
Cinematographer: Richard M. Nathan
Summary: Keerthi is a fierce wrestler with no successful marriage proposals…until Veera, a male chauvinistic ruffian, comes along
Overall Rating: Beignets 
Why did we think that Gatta Kusthi was a remake of Sultan? Must have been fooled by the submission wrestling 😅
Gatta Kusthi was definitely interesting, comic, and touching on core values. Somehow, the screenplay felt too common and could have been approached in a more innovative way
~Worth Watching~
Delicious
—Gatta Kusthi was very entertaining from the get-go and Karunas (playing Veera’s uncle) was in part responsible for this because he went above and beyond. His chauvinistic mannerisms and comments were too much.
According to him, women should always have long hair, lower their eyes, and he even spoke Hindi to his wife as a way of tricking her that he was speaking in English as she couldn’t tell the difference 🤣
—The film went all out in sounding the alarm on traditions that put marriage above everything.
It was quite visible how Veera’s and Keerthi’s families were soooo fixated on going from one marriage proposal to another for the sake of securing an alliance at all costs.
So sad to see that some women to this day have to suppress their dreams to get married
—What can we say? VIshnu Vishal (playing Veera) and Aishwarya Lekshmi (playing Keerthi) were simply 😍 Vishnu was hilarious trying to execute his uncle’s sexist orders while Aishwarya was hot-tempered with a soft heart and incorruptible moral values.
Kudos to Redin Kingsley playing the temple servant petrified by his wife and learning self-defense moves to save his dignity as a husband 😂
—Give it up to the lighting team because Gatta Kusthi was lit! There’s no way you can miss the enormous lighting during the external night scenes
Bland
—So, the movie carried a good lesson on empowering women and teaching husbands to honor their wives, but we’ve seen this so many times before.
It’ll actually be better to see these lessons implemented in Tamil cinema rather than just preaching about it in movies because too often, female characters are marginalized
—Keerthi’s fighting choreography could have been more robust and aggressive. The constant use of slow motion seemed to be hiding some imperfections
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(Audio: Tamil ; English Subtitles: Yes)
