On the big screen, after 20 years, Dharani’s ‘Ghilli’ still works better than most hero-oriented movies made today

The film stars Vijay, Trisha, Prakash Raj. The only thing to say about it is that it still holds up.

Let’s go back to April 17, 2004, the day Ghilli was released. The new millennium had seen the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers: Bala in December 1999 (so you can cheat a bit and include him among the millennial directors), Gautham Vasudev Menon in 2001, Ameer and Selvaraghavan in 2002. But even amidst this change, the good old masala-action movie ended up thriving, and Dharani was one of its major champions. He made a mark with Dhill in 2001, delivered a bigger blockbuster with Dhool, in 2003, and he scored a hat-trick with Ghilli. Despite the new-age directors and their new-age films, the masala movie clung on and remained the go-to genre if you wanted to become a big hero. Vikram was praised for Sethu, but Dhill refashioned his image, just like Run refashioned Madhavan’s image, and Thirumalai and Dheena refashioned the images of Vijay and Ajith.

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