Kantha: Ambitious but deeply flawed
The Statesman Delhi
|December 20, 2025
Playing an actor from the 1950s, Dulquer Salmaan is supposed to do a lot of hammy acting while the camera rolls in the film within a film.
Camera consciousness attains an all-new definition in Kantha.Dulquer has never been an actor capable of bringing variety to his performance. To manage two levels of performance in one film is clearly not his scene. He struggles to show us actor T K Mahadevan’s arrogant disregard for his mentor filmmaker Ayya(Samuthirakani)’s feelings, even as Dulquer Salmaan, the actor playing Mahadevan, struggles to show us the theatrical performances of those times as Mahadevan shoots for a film called Kantha.
A film within a film is a format that Meryl Streep attempted so magnificently in
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