Logged · 2026-08-15
DC
DC — perhaps the title stands more convincingly for Disproportionate Credit than Devadas and Chandra, because the film never quite comes together as strongly as its individual departments suggest it should. I walked into Arun Matheswaran’s directorial with a fair amount of expectation. The teaser and trailer were sharply cut and carried a certain energy, while Anirudh Ravichander’s already-popular album had done plenty of heavy lifting even before the film reached theatres. Unfortunately, the movie itself doesn’t consistently match the promise created by its promotional material. For a large portion of its 2-hour-20-minute runtime, DC almost feels less like watching a film and more like attending an extended listening session for Anirudh’s album. Songs & Scores arrive one after another with barely enough breathing room between them, to the point where the soundtrack becomes inseparable from the screenplay. Strangely enough, that also ends up being one of the film’s saving graces. The f