Vijay’s Bigil, directed by Atlee, is an adrenaline pumping mass entertainer, with a message on women empowerment and football used as a motivational tool. The story follows the basic sports template film, about a disgraced coach Miachel Rayappan pulling together a football team of women that lack motivation and drive to do the impossible. Bigil is basically a commerical film …
Aren’t Deepavali gifts the flavour of the season? As Bigil, he has seen much better days in the sport – to the extent that a selector calls him ‘pride of the nation’ – but he is now content being a local don. But Bigil isn’t about the romance – one wonders why it was there in the first place – …
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