Kasada Thapara Tamil HD Released

 Right at the beginning of Kasada Thapara, in a voiceover, director Chimbudeven gives us what the film is all about — a demonstration of two theories: the butterfly effect and the vantage point theory. The film involves six stories that are interlinked and each one has an overriding theme. Some characters who are principal characters in one story appear as outliers in another even as their actions influence the lives of people whom they hardly come in contact with.

A forgotten file doesn't just lead to a romance between the woman (Regina Cassandra) who has left it at the office she had gone to for an interview and the man (Premgi Amaren) who returns it to her, but also becomes the proof that could save a life. An well-meaning act by a young man (Prithvi Pandiarajan) towards a distraught woman (Vijayalakshmi) doesn't just result in taking many lives but also in sending an innocent man (Venkat Prabhu) to the gallows. The decision of a gangster (Sampath) to turn over a new leaf ends up ruining the marital life of a cop (Sundeep Kishan), who, in turn, gets to learn the truth about his sister (Vidya Pradeep) when a misplaced mobile phone is returned to him by an ambitious young man (Harish Kalyan), who has a change of heart when he realises that his act of sharing a cool drink might have put the lives of several kids in danger.

Kasada Thapara keeps us engaged thanks to the interconnectedness of its multiple storylines, as we are constantly surprised by how an character or their actions in one story shapes the lives of those in another segment. Chimbudeven has roped in a different cinematographer, editor and composer for each of these stories and this approach makes each of the segments stand out. The technical work in some of these are somewhat superior to what we see in the rest and even elevate that particular segment. Take the case of the final episode, Akkara (Care). The cinematographer-composer combo of Vijay Milton and Santhosh Narayanan enhance the emotions in the moving story and make us feel the misfortune of its protagonist (Venkat Prabhu, who is quite good in a role that had the potential to become melodramatic). But this is also a drawback in some instances, like in Panthayam (Betting). The director also uses a different aspect ratio for a few films, which seems to have been done just to make the stories stand out visually.

The tones of the individual stories don't always gel well, and this leads to uneven storytelling, unlike in a similarly structured hyperlink movie like Super Deluxe, in which every individual story gloriously came together in enthralling fashion. But to his credit, the director manages to make us care for a few of the characters that we stay invested in the proceedings even when they feel generic.