Keerthiswaran’s ‘Dude’ is a smart, funny, progressive comedy that shatters many Tamil cinema tropes
- Trinity Auditorium
- Oct 17
- 1 min read
Pradeep Ranganathan and Mamitha Baiju are in top form in a relationship story that is chaotic in a good way. I can’t reveal much, but the film is sweet and silly and entertaining enough to make you overlook its flaws. That is the short take. A longer review follows and it may contain spoilers.
The opening stretch of Dude sets up the tone of the film, and also the type of content that’s in store. It involves a wedding, an ex, a thaali, a bit of creepiness, and a whole lot of chaos. The film that follows is about modern-day relationships and it’s told in a funny manner that makes the shortcomings easy to ignore. What I really liked about Dude is that it speaks about things that are sacred in Tamil cinema (like that thaali, for instance) in such an irreverent way. Yes, sure, Alaipaayuthey told us that parents were not necessary to have a wedding, and Pizza and O Kadhal Kanmani and Dada told us that sex was not a by-product of marriage. But these films wove these ideas into a bigger, more serious narrative. But in Dude, the entire narrative is light-hearted. Even something like honour killing becomes a potential joke generator.
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