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14 Jun 2026, 3:14 pm
Charukesi Movie Review(2 / 5) Sweeping lectures about the new generation not safeguarding age-old cultures or not being within the rigid worldview of one single person isn’t new to Tamil cinema. The radically angry family members who should know better than to question authority (elder family members). The older generation with a Martyr complex who are revered in the end because they have always known better for everybody else. What happens if you chip off some of the fundamental markers of these tropes and sand it and varnish it so that it looks fresh, you get Suresh Krissna’s Charukesi .
Director: Suresh Krissna
Cast: YG Mahendra, Thalaivasal Vijay, Raj Ayyappa, Sriramya Pandian, and Sathyaraj
The film revolves around an aged titular musician, played by YG Mahendra, who is regarded as ‘god’ by the people surrounding him. See, even if people do amazing things, make paramount sacrifices, and help lift each other up, it shouldn’t make them superhuman. Humans are fundamentally flawed. The film forgets this basic rule, and builds up the talent, magnanimity, and philanthropic nature of Charukesi. The film ends up making him a ‘god’ and we are never able to root for Charukesi’s human side. Also in making Charukesi an infalliable character, the film loses a lot of time on dialogues that are just uttered to reinforce what we already know about him. Every single character has to reinforce how Charukesi can never forget anything, how even beyond multiple betrayals he has always done the right thing, to a point where the redundancy becomes claustrophobic. This redundancy in dialogues also extends to reinforcing the direction of the narrative, which pulls back the narrative.
Charukesi is a man, whose life has been consumed by music. But the use of music has not been used to propel the narrative or even establish its importance in the film. Music seems to have
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