Sivabalan Muthukumar’s ‘Bloody Beggar’, starring Kavin, is a triumph of concept and a letdown in execution

There is always something interesting: a bit of casting, or the centre framing, or the over-the-top set design… but on screen, a lot of it falls flat.

Kavin seems to be one of the few actors who is interested in cinema as an art form. I am sure he wants to become a big hero and wants to make big money – but beyond that, you sense in him a genuine love to do something different, something more than just “what the audience wants”, something that he can sink himself into as an actor. In Sivabalan Muthukumar’s Bloody Beggar, produced by Nelson, Kavin plays an anti-protagonist. He is not the doer. He is the one to whom things are done to. Put differently, he is not the “actor” here. He is the “acted upon”. Kavin plays a beggar with a mouth that makes an O-shape, like a goldfish. At no point in this film does he lose the metre of his character, and that is an impressive achievement in a dark, deadpan, absurd comedy that plays like Knives Out as remade by the Coen Brothers.

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