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Her motherвЂ™s soot-stained hands fall on VarunвЂ™s pure-white shirt. This time, itвЂ™s a little girl trapped in a fire.

But soon, the Big Transformative Eventв„ў happens. He can barely look away from the game heвЂ™s playing to sign important papers. (Or a вЂњ benami CM,вЂќ as MK Stalin would put it.) Who better than Varun, a political naГЇf, someone who designs video games in London and canвЂ™t wait to get back? At first, Varun is uninterested. (None of Sam CSвЂ™s songs stay in mind.) While driving home, heвЂ™s picked up by the cops - not for drunk driving but because his father, whoвЂ™s the stateвЂ™s CM (Vinodhan, played by Nasser), is being prosecuted in an illegal assets case and needs a placeholder. The film opens with Varun celebrating his birthday with a pool party, with shots, male friends in shorts, and female friends in something shorter. Why pick a plot line weвЂ™ve already seen in Mudhalvan and Bharat Ane Nenu ? Then again, why not? If we are okay with the 65,467th iteration of a вЂњmassвЂќ movie, why resist something that tries to assure us that things can get better, if only for two-and-a-half hours?ДЄt least, thatвЂ™s what I told myself during the setup, which occurs exactly as we expect. ItвЂ™s not perfect, but I was grateful for this bit of wish-fulfilment. These are the emotions I felt during NOTA. The line functions as both gratitude (within the movie) and wish-fulfilment (without). This is also the story of a young actor thrust into the leading role of his first Tamil film. T owards the end of Anand ShankarвЂ™s NOTA, Varun (Vijay Devarakonda) says, вЂњ Pudhiyavan aana ennai aasayodu varavettra Thamizh makkaleвЂ¦ вЂќ (The Tamils have so lovingly welcomed a newcomer like meвЂ¦) This is the story of a youngster thrust into the position of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

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