‘Kasada Tabara’ movie review: A broken hyperlink affair

Chimbudeven’s six-segmented film boasts of a sprawling ensemble cast and some intriguing performances, but isn’t cohesively stitched and fails to engage

Chimbudeven’s Kasada Tabara begins with a couple of definitions. One: the vantage point, a position from which something is viewed (a change in this can drastically alter one’s view). Two: the butterfly effect, the phenomenon whereby a small change can have dire far-reaching consequences elsewhere (you must have heard of this in Dasavatharam or The Butterfly Effect movie itself). Both these concepts aren’t new to cinema; not even to Tamil cinema. . We know from the trailer and interviews that Kasada... is a hyperlink film, i.e. the characters inhabit separate stories that are connected. This format too isn’t new. Chimbudeven himself admitted this in his interview with The Hindu: “Thiruvilayadal (1965) is a hyperlink subject, with Lord Shiva being the common link. My film has six episodes that are connected in some way.”