Adhik Ravichandran’s ‘Mark Antony’ mixes serious masala storytelling with goofy humour, and the result is inventive and entertaining

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After Venkat Prabhu, Adhik Ravichandran sets out to prove that it possible to make a well-thought-out, well-written, and well-made entertainer within the boundaries of commercial Tamil cinema. Like , takes a sci-fi premise and does joyously inventive things with it. The difference is in the tone. was more classical, while is gloriously over-the-top – it’s like a knowingly cheesy revenge-themed Spaghetti Western. (The score by GV Prakash Kumar is appropriately filled with trumpets and guitar twangs.) In 1975, a science geek played by Selvaraghavan creates a time-travel phone, which helps you make calls to people in the past. And through those calls, if you provide information in order to change the course of events, the present changes, too. This much we know. But what Adhik does with his writers is brilliant. He slaps this crux onto the movie. And this is where the film takes a life of its own.

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