Kavin and Andrea Jeremiah play around with a lot of money and black humour and old-school sentiment. The mix sounds good in theory, but the film doesn’t come together fully. But it does have its moments. That’s the short take. A longer review follows, and it may contain spoilers.
In Mask, Kavin plays Velu. The film calls him a hacker, a blackmailer, a scammer – but he’s really some kind of private detective who’s hired by people who want to know if their spouses are having affairs or if their daughters are doing drugs. This is a perfect part for Kavin. Velu is from the Nelson school of characterisation. He plays dumb but he is full of surprises. Andrea Jeremiah is equally well-cast as Bhumi, who runs an NGO with a look of steely amusement. One of the conceits of this film is that Bhumi isn’t who we think she is, either. In other words, everyone wears a mask. The story wears a mask, too. You think it’s a black comedy with a tone derived from Aaranya Kaandam. It turns into a Shankar movie with a flashback filled with middle-class victims.
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