Gatta Kusthi

As a commercial comedy entertainer, Gatta Kusthi has succeeded. Aishwarya, who played Poonguzhali in Ponniyin Selvan, has done well in the action here.

A film that speaks highly of women and inspires them. A film that every woman who wants to achieve should watch.

Gatta Kusthi succeeds as a neat family entertainer that manages to impress viewers with engaging emotions, conflicts and a couple of action scenes. The lead actors entertain viewers for most of its part, and the amalgamation of commercial elements keeps the audience hooked to a good extent.

There's a strong whiff of '90s commercial cinema in Chella Ayyavu's Gatta Kusthi, which starts with tropes that we have seen in films of that period and then surprises us by gradually subverting most of them in a refreshing and entertaining manner. One of the best things about Gatta Kusthi is how aware it is about its old-school approach to a formulaic plot.

While Gatta Kusthi seems to have its heart in the right place, bad writing choices let it down in crucial places—like the choice to milk misogyny for comedy. Though the film tells aloud several times that women aren't slaves to men and they deserve better treatment inside and outside homes, it still gives the toxic males the longest end of the rope.

Most of the scenes and dialogues of the film inevitably evoke a sense of being drawn back into the cinema of the 90s era.