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Super Deluxe

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How does one classify the Tamil language movie Super Deluxe? The name doesn’t hold any clue to the contents and a viewer chooses to watch the film solely on reviews and the stellar starcast. Super Deluxe has morality at its core and the viewers are forced to think about the situations unravelling on the screen. This movie is a roller coaster journey across multiple genres like sexuality, gender discrimination, gender identity, fidelity, lust, science, religiosity and faith. It is funny in parts (also has dark comedy), violent at times (not physical, very cerebral where we feel the characters mental anguish), and also philosophical at some places (it carries the message that we are all one yet different). With four parallel story tracks which converge near the end, Super Deluxe packs quite a punch.  We have an arc in which a transgender grapples with his emotions when he returns to his family after disappearing for seven years. In these seven years he comes to terms with his sexuality a