Karthi and Arvind Swami star in C Prem Kumar’s ‘Meiyazhagan’, a sweet, leisurely, talky story about broken family ties

Actually, there may have been no need for that warning, because Meiyazhagan, in a way, is a movie that cannot really be “spoiled” for an audience. This is Prem Kumar’s second film, and like his first one, 96, the storyline is super-simple. There, it was about two estranged lovers meeting after a long time. Here, it is about two estranged relatives meeting after a long time. Arvind Swamy plays the royally named Arulmozhi Varman. He lives in Chennai with his wife Hema (Devadarshini) and daughter Janhvi. Note the daughter’s name. As opposed to the father’s very South Indian name, this is a “North Indian” name, a Sanskrit name. The gradual erosion of Tamil values is one of the themes of this conversational movie. Later, we will listen to a drunken rant about how, in school, we learn about the Rani of Jhansi but not about Rani Velu Nachiyar, who preceded her.

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