“After watching Thalaivi, though, I wonder if she spent more energy promoting the film than performing. For starters, it is clear that she speaks nearly no Tamil at all. The lip sync is grating, the words we hear almost disembodied from the person mouthing them on screen. This is even more jarring in song sequences. The only scene where the lip-sync matches is when she speaks English dialogue. Perhaps Vijay settled for Ranaut chewing gum during the shoot, which he hoped to fix in the dubbing studio. I do not know if that is the intention, but I can confirm that nothing got fixed in dubbing.
It might not all be Ranaut’s fault. Writer-Director Vijay does absolutely nothing for the film. Much of the first half plays like a mad ads skit with MJR (Aravind Swamy in a role modelled on former actor and Tamil Nadhu Chief Minister MGR) and Jaya (Ranaut) sporting retro costumes and dancing around trees. These costumes are beautiful, recreating the past, without making them look funny. The set design too is captivating — the cars, houses, open spaces tingling nostalgia. Thank God the first look video of Kangana dancing did not make it to the movie. But a large part of the first act serves only to remind us that these are two public figures we know much about.”
1.5/5 stars
https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/thalaivi-movie-review-an-awkward-kangana-ranaut-in-a-convenient-jayalalithaa-biopic-9953271.html
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