Putham Pudhu Kaalai - Refreshing

An utterly refreshing watch! There has been a lot of criticism on how this is such a designed-for-upper-class kind of an anthology and I agree with that point. However, I wouldn't call that out as a point of criticism. It is the point-of-view of a certain set of people. Everyone's been raving about the houses too - especially the one in 'Reunion' - Rajeev Menon's film with Gurucharan and Andrea. Recently discovered that the location is actually a restaurant 'Madras Square'. It's open architectural style reminded me of Howard Roark and Ayn Rand. Very inspiring visually!

Our personal favorite was clearly Ilamai Idho Idho. While Jayaram completely nailed the Yoga Master pretense, Kalidas and Kalyani's cutesy moments stole the show. Sudha Kongara's got such amazing skills in weaving melting romantic stories. Really looking forward to Soorarai Pottru after this one. None of the other stories really lived up to the hype of their creators according to me. Could have been so much more. However, after a long time, this turned out to be quite a satisfying OTT watch in Tamil!

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