: ‘Navarasa’ review: The emotions don’t always add up in Netflix’s Tamil anthology film #IndiaNEWS Usually a quartet, occasionally a sextet and now a nonet: the Netflix anthology film is getting

‘Navarasa’ review: The emotions don’t always add up in Netflix’s Tamil anthology film #IndiaNEWS
Usually a quartet, occasionally a sextet and now a nonet: the Netflix anthology film is getting more ambitious. The Tamil-language Navarasa follows such recent releases on the streaming platform as Feels Like Ishq, Ajeeb Daastaans, Ray and Paava Kadhaigal. Comprising nine short films dedicated to each of the rasas, the aesthetic essence of artistic works that inspires an indescribable emotion in the viewer, the Mani Ratnam-Jayendra Panchapakesan production is meant as a fundraiser to assist Tamil industry professionals wounded by the Covid-19 pandemic. The episodes were filmed during and in between various lockdowns, which might explain the limited scope and house-bound nature of some of them. Some chapters take advantage of the short film format to provide vignettes of life experiences. Others present complete arcs. The effort to both crunch and expand the imagination between 30 and 40-odd minutes yields at least one solid winner but also several underwhelming titles.Navarasa opens with excellent performances in an otherwise ordinary story. Revathi, Vijay Sethupathi and Prakash Raj carry Bejoy Nambiar’s Edhiri: Karuna. (Each of the chapters mentions the rasa being examined). Split screens reveal the connection between Dheena (Sethupathi) and Savithri (Revathi) before opening out to explore the point of intersection of their stories. Based on a...Read more

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