About Aghathiyaa
| Title: | Aghathiyaa |
|---|---|
| Original Title: | அகத்தியா |
| Plot: | Things go awry when a haunted mansion is opened as a tourist attraction by Aghathiyan leading to the unraveling of the dark history behind the mansion's previous occupant. |
| Cast: | Jiiva, Raashii Khanna, Arjun Sarja, Edward Sonnenblick, Matilda, Yogi Babu |
| Director: | Pa. Vijay |
| Cinematography: | Deepak Kumar Padhy |
| Editor: | San Lokesh |
Aghathiyaa
Kirubhakar Purushothaman
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Jivaa And Raashii Khanna’s Film Is A Grand But Confusing Tale With Perilous Ideas
Jiiva’s Aghathiyaa, which marks the debut of lyricist Pa Vijay as director, neither is clear about its genre nor about the ideology it wants to purport.
Abrodolph Lincoler is one of the outrageously funny characters in the American animated series Rick And Morty’s hit episode Ricksy Business. He is a genetically engineered clone with the DNAs of Adolf Hitler and Abraham Lincoln. He is an experiment gone wrong. The idea was to create a more neutral ideological leader, but in reality, he ended up becoming a person with disoriented ideas. Sample one of his lines: “Prepared to be emancipated from your own inferior genes." He is a diabolical cocktail of ideas. Watching Aghathiyaa reminded me of this character as the film’s ideology is as confusing as Lincoler. On one hand, the film, directed by lyricist Pa Vijay, has Dravidian newspapers Kudiyarasu and Viduthalai as some product placements throughout, and at the same time, it is a propaganda film about Siddha medicine that would make Periyar turn in his grave.