The read
A Balasaur Score of 80 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.5/10. It runs long at 2h 30m. Streaming on Netflix.
Synopsis
Set in the backdrop of a film set, in the 1950’s in post colonial Madras, the film is centred around the professional rivalry between a film-maker trying to make his seminal film and the top reigning actor who the director once introduced. The rivalry spirals around the leading actress, a debutante and as the relationship between the three.
Ratings
IMDb8.5/10
27 audience votes
Key crew
- Selvamani SelvarajDirector
- Jhanu ChantharOriginal Music Composer
- Thamizh PrabhaWriter
- Selvamani SelvarajWriter
- Jakes BejoyOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Dulquer SalmaanT. K. Mahadevan
- Bhagyashri BorseKumari
- SamuthirakaniA. P. Kodandaraman
- Ravindra VijayMartin Prabhakaran
- Rana DaggubatiPhoenix
- Gayathrie ShankarDevi
- Nizhalgal RaviSivabalan Mudhaliyar
- VaiyapuriSelvam
- Java SundaresanStage Presenter
- Bijesh NageshBabu
- Aadukalam NarenIG
- Bagavathi PerumalConstable Kaathu
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Themes
fictionalized history