‘Muthu Alias Kaattaan’ review: A slow-burning, satisfying saga of revenge and redemption
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Like a plump scented candle, Muthu Engira Kaattaan (Muthu Alias Kaattaan) burns slowly. The Tamil series, led by Vijay Sethupathi, is in no rush to reveal why the head of Sethupathi’s Muthu is perched atop a rock on the outskirts of a village.
The rest of Muthu’s body is nowhere in sight. There’s also a tonne of money lying around.
Muthu’s visage has a grisly grin. The show too plays out like a lengthy cosmic joke involving a Zelig-like figure who’s saint as well as sinner, a bunch of rural policemen, and other players spread out far and wide.
The revenge-and-redemption saga is out on JioHotstar. It begins with Kalai Pandiyan, for whom law enforcement is a side hustle to goat rearing. Yet, Kalai (Vadivel Murugan) doesn’t want his police station to be shuttered because of a negligible crime rate. The case of the headless Muthu galvanises the constable and his senior officers, setting them on a quest that involves every one of their grey cells and many litres of petrol.
A village elder (Balaji Sakthivel) provides the first clue into Muthu’s identity – Muthu was a bouncer for a dance troupe led by Meena (Risha Jacobs). It turns out that Muthu held several jobs in different places.
The peripatetic soul has...