Spoilers ahead…
Read the full review on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/kanchana-3-movie-review-ragava-lawrence-busts-our-eardrums-in-the-most-tiresome-entry-in-the-kanchana-franchise/
According to Aristotle… (Reader’s mind voice: Wait! What? I thought I was reading the review of ‘Kanchana 3’. After years of sitting through films like ‘Boomerang’, has BR finally lost it?) Bear with me, please. I’m trying to make a point here. So according to Aristotle, we like scary stories because we get a sense of catharsis, a chance to purge ourselves of aggressive and negative emotions. Freud gives us another theory: horror allows us to vent out feelings and thoughts that have been suppressed by the ego. According to Jung, horror is a manifestation of primordial images that reside in the collective unconscious. But for the purposes of this review, the most important explanation for horror may be the one from Kollywood. It’s what keeps Ragava Lawrence a star, despite Motta Siva Ketta Siva.
He returns as Raghava, the man who’s so scared of ghosts that he needs his mother (Kovai Sarala) to sleep beside him, plus stand outside the bathroom and sing to him as he relieves himself. (In other words, he puts the ‘pee’ in ‘paranormal’.) This time, trouble awaits him when he visits his grandparents. Spirits have snuck into their house, which is also home to three spirited — and perpetually underdressed — young women. (They are played by Oviya, Vedhika and Nikki Tamboli, who thrusts out her hip and butt and asks Raghava to check her out.) We also have the large family from the earlier films, including the characters played by Devadarshini and Sriman. This couple gets a ‘joke’ early on, when he returns home after a long time and she falls at his feet and while getting up, her head bumps against his crotch. It may be a veiled reference, an easter egg hinting that the whole film is, well, nuts.
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Baradwaj Rangan 
Krishnan
April 19, 2019
Should it not be ‘The children in the seats next to mine‘ ?
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Rad Mahalikudi
April 19, 2019
BR: It may be a veiled reference, an easter egg hinting that the whole film is, well, nuts.
Sir, neenga engeyo poyitteenga, Sir!!
I hear movie ends with “warning” for next part, Muni-5? Get ready to review that, BR!!
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praneshp
April 20, 2019
Whenever I get worked up that @brangan likes some movies I detest (Kadal, Katru Veliyidai), or that his reviews “misled” me into watching some I would’ve skipped (Purampoku …, Yatchan), I am reminded that my job doesn’t force me into watching shit with Raghava Lawrence’s face in it.
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MANK
April 20, 2019
When Aristotle, Freud , Jung and Raghava Lawrence appear together in the same sentence, you know it’s written by Baradwaj Rangan.
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brangan
April 20, 2019
Ooh. Look who’s deigned to visit us 😛
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MANK
April 20, 2019
Ha ha haaaa. Ada ponga saaar 🙂 .Oh i do drop in now and then. You’re just too busy to notice,now that you’ve started interviewing Telugu film stars too 😀
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Anantha Padmanaban R
April 20, 2019
Blue shirt is head and shoulder above BR in ripping apart a dud movie..u guys should watch his Kanchana 3 review..
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Ravi K
April 20, 2019
Sounds like watching this movie is unkanchanable.
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Odiyan Hater - Lucifer is subtle propaganda
April 21, 2019
Maybe because I watched Kadal after reading BR’s book on (with) Maniratnam, I liked it and I think I get why he likes it… It is more like a fable than a movie that is supposed to be taken literally… It’s not like poetry has become irrelevant just because we don’t converse/communicate in daily life in the manner poems are written…
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Odiyan Hater - Madhuraraja is sexist
April 21, 2019
Blue Sattai is a good roaster while BR rips apart the movie through his writings…
The difference is similar to the diff btw a separate comedy track and a comedy woven into the narrative…
Blue Sattai is potato chips while BR is Fried Rice with Gobi Manchurian…
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Sriram Sridhar
April 24, 2019
Can you do Vellai Pookkal movie review Sir?? The movie is made by passionate tech people in Seattle. Would love to hear your feedback on the movie Sir.
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Honest Raj
May 3, 2019
“This couple gets a ‘joke’ early on, when he returns home after a long time and she falls at his feet and while getting up, her head bumps against his crotch.”
I must say that you missed Dhilluku Dhuddu 2. 🙂
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