Super Deluxe

Story:

Super Deluxe is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language film that was co-written, co-produced, and directed by Thiagarajan Kumararaja. Mysskin, Nalan Kumarasamy, and Neelan K. Sekar also contributed to the screenplay. The film features Fahadh Faasil, Vijay Sethupathi, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, and Ramya Krishnan and is produced by Tyler Durden and Kino Fist, Alchemy Vision Works, and East West Dream Work Entertainment. As a hyperlink movie, it centers on four sets of people who, on one fateful day, find themselves in the most unexpected situations and are all about to experience their destiny.

After helming Aaranya Kaandam (2011), the director made Super Deluxe his second film. Subsequently, under Aneedhi Kadhaigal, Kumararaja formally announced this project in November 2016. Despite challenges brought on by demonetization, the actors’ and technicians’ schedule commitments, and the Tamil Film Producers Council strike, the filming process continued for over a year. June 2018 marked the official end of the film’s production, which was followed by an extensive post-production stage. Yuvan Shankar Raja is the composer of the movie’s soundtrack. After P. C. Sreeram, who had been working on the film’s first schedule, left the project in the middle, P. S. Vinod and Nirav Shah took over the cinematography. Sathyaraj Natarajan is the film’s editor.

Shilpa’s story
The father of Rasukutty, Manickam, who left the family seven years ago, is expected to return, according to Jyothi and her son Rasukutty. They are shocked when Manickam—a transgender woman named Shilpa—arrives from Mumbai. Rasukutty wishes to present Shilpa to his schoolmates. While traveling, Shilpa gets arrested by a racist police officer and is made to fall in love with Berlin, another corrupt policeman. People at Shilpa’s son’s school are harassing and humiliating her further.

Feeling devastated, Shilpa purchases a ticket to go back to Mumbai, her home as a hijra. While returning from school, Shilpa misplaces Rasukutty. She visits Berlin at the police, desperate to find her son, and begs him to assist her. She struggles with Berlin and casts a death curse on him before running away, having refused to entertain Berlin for any sexual favors. After much thought and sadness, Shilpa returns home, where she discovers Rasukutty. After finding the train ticket to Mumbai in Shilpa’s purse, Rasukutty says he realized she was going to leave them again. This led to an emotional confrontation in which Shilpa realized Rasukutty and Jyothi were willing to accept her for who she is, and they all continue to live.

The TV narrative
When the five teenagers—Gaaji, Soori, Mohan, Vasanth, and Thuyavan—gather to watch a pornographic film at Thuyavan’s house instead of going to school, they discover that the star of the film is Soori’s mother, Leela. In a rage, Soori smashes the TV and runs away, sobbing. Fearing that his father would discover the malfunctioning TV, Thuyavan enlists the help of Gaaji and Vasanth to obtain sufficient funds for a replacement TV by the end of the day.

They take a job from a neighborhood mobster, but they don’t finish what they’re supposed to. They then make an unsuccessful attempt to break into the home of a North Indian pawnbroker. As they try to rob him once more, they are stopped by a magically gifted girl who reveals herself to be an alien. She makes a copy of Gaaji and keeps one clone for company. She gives the friends money so they can purchase a new TV. They finally head to a movie theater to watch a pornographic movie after throwing the old, broken TV through the crumbling roof of an abandoned building.

Story of Leela
After learning that Leela had acted in a pornographic movie, Soori becomes furious and races home with a screwdriver, threatening to kill her. He stabbing himself in the abdomen when he trips and falls on the staircase. His father Arputham (previously known as Dhanasekaran) is told about the accident by a distraught Leela, who drives him to the hospital. Surviving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Arputham holds a Jesus statue that he was holding onto when the tsunami struck and believes it was God’s way of saving him. Following this encounter, he became a Christian, but he is currently experiencing a spiritual crisis.

Taken from Leela by force, Arputham locks Soori inside his chapel and subjects her to faith healing. After pleading with her husband in vain, Leela finds a local counselor to help her get her son admitted to a hospital; however, she is now having trouble making ends meet. Subsequently, it is disclosed that Arputham’s spiritual crisis was instigated by an earlier exchange between the two. After losing Rasukutty, Shilpa confides in Arputham about inadvertently escorting and handing over two children to a criminal gang, where the children were disfigured to enhance their beggarly skills. She fears that her son may suffer a similar fate.

Arputham tells her that she would be better off dead and that there is no forgiveness for someone like her. Shilpa tells Arputham, before she leaves him, that she attempted to drown herself during the 2004 tsunami but was able to survive by clinging to a rock; unlike Arputham, she did not attribute any divinity to it. Out of rage and desperation, Arputham smashes the Jesus statue and discovers long-forgotten diamonds inside, which he uses to cover Soori’s medical costs. Leela questions him about his level of faith if he had been saved by holding on to a stuffed animal rather than Jesus. As Soori makes peace with Leela, he considers that query.

Stories of Vaembu and Mugil
When Vaembu’s husband Mugil is away, she secretly has sex with her ex-boyfriend, but the unhappy married woman, forced into an arranged marriage, unexpectedly dies in the act. Mugil finds the corpse when he gets home. Though shocked to learn that his spouse had been unfaithful, he chooses to dispose of the body because he didn’t want the incident to be made public because he was afraid of the stigma associated with having an unfaithful spouse.

Vaembu and Mugil eventually succeed in smuggling the body out of town, where they try to stage the death as an accident by placing the corpse in a car on the railroad tracks. However, Berlin—the dishonest policeman from Shilpa’s tale—catches them and blackmails the couple for Vaembu’s sexual favors. He moves to approach the apprehensive and upset Vaembu with the intention of having sex with her, but the boys’ old TV from the TV story falls on his head and kills him (earlier due to Shilpa’s curse coming true). After disposing of both corpses, the couple makes amends.

Conclusion
The four story ends are woven together with the voice-over from the epilogue.
At last, the TV story’s friends are enjoying a pornographic movie at the theater. The movie opens with a doctor philosophizing about the mysteries of life and patterns throughout the universe, emphasizing how everything is connected in ways we don’t yet understand. Then he winks and says he’ll share a few of those secrets. The nurse in the vicinity blinked and began undressing as the name of the pornographic film, Vaazhvin Ragasiyam (“The Secret of Life”), appeared.