Super Deluxe
A film by THIAGARAJAN kumararaja
Comic style poster created by using procreate
Inking and colouring
Shilpha Story
Jyothi and her son Rasukutty are awaiting the return of Rasukutty's father, Manickam, who abandoned the family seven years ago. To their shock, Manickam arrives from Mumbai as a trans woman, Shilpa. Rasukutty wants to introduce Shilpa to his friends at school. On the way, a bigoted cop detains Shilpa, and she is forced into fellating a corrupt police officer named Berlin. Shilpa faces further harassment and humiliation from people at her son's school. Distraught, she buys a ticket to return to Mumbai, where she lives as a hijra. On the way home from school, Shilpa loses Rasukutty. Now desperate to find her son, she goes to the police and meets Berlin, pleading with him to help her. After refusing to entertain Berlin for any sexual favors, she grapples with Berlin and places a death curse on him before escaping. Distraught, she finally decides to go home and finds Rasukutty there. Rasukutty reveals he discovered Shilpa's intention of abandoning them again after seeing the train ticket to Mumbai in her purse, leading to an emotional confrontation where Shilpa realizes that Rasukutty and Jyothi are ready to accept her as she is, and they all go on living together.
The TV story
Five teens (Gaaji, Soori, Mohan, Vasanth, and Thuyavan) skip school and gather to watch a porn movie at Thuyavan's home, only to find out that the porn star is Soori's mother, Leela. Soori breaks the TV in a fit of rage and runs away, crying. Thuyavan, afraid of his father finding out about the broken TV, enlists Gaaji and Vasanth into getting enough money for a new TV by the evening. They accept a job from a local gangster but fail to complete their assigned task. They then try to steal a North Indian pawnbroker's house, which fails too. Attempting to steal from him again, they are confronted by a girl with magical powers at the home who reveals herself to be an alien. She duplicates Gaaji, keeping one clone with herself for companionship. The friends get money from her to buy a new TV. They toss out the old broken TV through the broken roof of a disused building and set off to a cinema hall to finally watch a porn film.
This life is
Meaningless
But
Noble
Leela's story
Reaching home, an enraged Soori runs towards Leela with a screwdriver, intending to kill her after finding out she acted in a porn film. He trips and falls on the staircase and inadvertently stabs himself in the abdomen. A distraught Leela takes him to the hospital, and his father Arputham (formerly known as Dhanasekaran) is informed about the accident. Arputham is a survivor from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami who believes that God saved him in the form of a Jesus statue which he held onto when the tsunami struck. He converted to Christianity after this experience, but is currently having a crisis of faith. He forcibly takes Soori from Leela and subjects Soori to faith healing at his chapel while locking her out. Leela then gets her son admitted to a hospital with the help of a local counselor after she unsuccessfully pleads with her husband, but she now struggles to arrange for medical expenses. It is then revealed that Arputham's crisis of faith was triggered by a conversation with Shilpa earlier, when Shilpa, having lost Rasukutty, confesses her guilt to him over unknowingly escorting and delivering two children to a criminal gang, where the children were mutilated to make them more effective beggars, fearing that her karma has caught up with her and that her son might end up with a similar fate. Arputham states there can be no forgiveness for a person like her and tells her that she would be better off dead. Before leaving him, Shilpa tells Arputham that she tried to drown herself during the 2004 tsunami but survived by holding onto a rock, but didn't attribute any divinity to it, unlike Arputham. Arputham breaks the Jesus statue out of rage and desperation and finds long-forgotten diamonds inside it, which he uses to pay for Soori's medical expenses. Leela asks him whether he'd still have faith if he'd been saved by clinging onto a teddy bear instead of Jesus. He reflects on that question while Soori reconciles with Leela.
Vaembu and Mugil's story
Vaembu, an unhappily married woman forced into an arranged marriage, has sex with her ex-boyfriend while her husband is away, but her ex-boyfriend suddenly dies in the act. Her husband Mugil returns home to find the corpse. While devastated to discover that his wife had been cheating on him, he decides to dispose of the body as he didn't want this incident to be exposed, fearful of the stigma attached to having an unfaithful wife. Eventually, they manage to smuggle the corpse out of town and attempt to plant the corpse in a car on the railway track to stage the death as an accident. But they are caught by Berlin (the corrupt police officer from Shilpa's story), who blackmails the couple in return for sexual favours from Vaembu. As he advances towards the unwilling and distraught Vaembu, intending to rape her, the old TV thrown by the boys (from the TV story) falls on his head and kills him. The couple gets rid of both the corpses and reconciles with each other.
Vijay sethupathi,Gayathrie,Mysskin,Ramya Krishnan,Samantha,Fahad Faazil
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