Vishwanath And Sons Movie Review: Hey Suriya & Venky Atluri, Could You Help Bollywood Learn A Thing Or Two On How To Do Age-Gap Rom-Coms Right?!

Vishwanath and Sons Review Rating:

Star Cast: Suriya, Mamitha Baiju, Radhika Sarathkumar, Raveena Tandon

Director: Venky Atluri

What’s Good: Venky Atluri’s sensible and mature writing that brings a winner of a film!

What’s Bad: The subplots including Raveena Tandon

Loo Break: Anytime you want!

Watch or Not?: Need a break from Bollywood cringe romances? Try this rom-com!

Language: Tamil, dubbed in Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada

Available On: Netflix

Runtime: 2 hours 40 minutes

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Take a 40-year-old man – handsome, swooning, filthy rich, an Olympic medal winner, and bring a 20-something girl – bubbly, chirpy, looking for the man of her dreams, has some huge professional goals in life! Bring them together in any Bollywood commercial film and let them make you feel uncomfortable in a cringe-filled love story. Now turn the tables and hand this plot to Venky Atluri, who trusts his actors Suriya and Mamitha Baiju completely, and his actors reward him fairly with a film that works with restraint rather than melodrama, making it a mature age-gap romantic comedy! Vishwanath And Sons impresses you with a very honest attempt to entertain, but never crosses a certain line when it comes to the romance genre in particular!

Age-gap romances in mainstream Indian cinema have historically meant one of two things – either the hero is allowed to age while the heroine stays permanently 21 and nobody comments on it, or the film leans so hard into the discomfort that it becomes the entire point. Venky Atluri does neither. It asks its question plainly – can a man in his 40s and a woman in her early …read more

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