Tamizharasan Pachamuthu makes a sixer of a debut with ‘Lubber Pandhu’, a beautiful drama with heart and craft

In the first big scene of Lubber Pandhu, set at a cricket match, we are introduced to a great bowler and a great batsman. The story will soon shift to 11 years later, and we will see these two characters as Anbu (Harish Kalyan) and Gethu (‘Attakathi’ Dinesh) – but this early scene gives us the sense of a history being established. Anbu and Gethu will soon become enemies, and the fantastic first half essentially becomes a demonstration of Alfred Hitchcock’s bomb theory. According to Hitchcock, if you show the audience that there’s a bomb ticking away, then they will wait in suspense about when and how the explosion will happen. Similarly, here, the audience is told who Anbu is, who Gethu is, and what the bomb-like plot point is. And we wait for these two characters to realise how they are connected. We wait for the when and the how of the explosion. The experience is bliss.

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