Updated On: 10 May, 2023 07:03 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Is there currently a better exponent of empathetic plus tough-male movie genre, than the champion from Chennai?

Actors Soori and Vijay Sethupathi in the film Viduthalai Part 1
Deaths must count in movies. Else, those living in them won’t matter. I guess it’s just a Shakespearean device to simply kill characters off one by one, overused in thrillers for a climax—that’s been my perennial pet-peeve as an audience.
I thought of this, with much relief/satisfaction, in an early, lingering, action sequence, in Viduthalai: Part I (recently dropped on Zee5)—of a random cop hit by a bullet in a stray ambush.