From the initialism, I expected a spiritual successor to RRR. Nope, different feel, different studio, different language, probably none of the same people working on it. The Tamil title translates roughly to "Under the Leader and Younger Brother."
Somewhere in modern India, during a pre-wedding party, an elderly alleged prophet dies of natural causes. His son insists on holding an elaborate funeral at the same time the wedding is scheduled to begin. Village council president Jeeva has his work cut out for him in keeping the peace between hostile, sometimes criminal neighbors, especially after the bride is mistakenly believed to have run off with another man.
More than one source lists "action" among the genres, but that's generous. Only the climax includes an appreciable amount of fighting or whatnot. Even Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood had more action scenes.
Between the previous two paragraphs, you may think this sounds pretty empty. Fortunately, at 112 minutes, it might be the shortest Indian movie I've ever seen. I didn't find it slow. And no, there are no musical sequences for filler. Situation-specific lyrics, yes, but not sung by characters, and dancing occurs only briefly at the party.
So how does TTT fare as a comedy? Well, I can appreciate that basically nobody succeeds at anything except fakery. Jeeva seems most competent, and he ends up laughing bitterly at his own failures. Even the guy who invites troublemakers to put the fun in "funeral" gets more than he bargained for. Nothing too dark; nobody dies after the prophet.
As a political satire, however, it's clearly not aimed at me. You probably need to be well acquainted with family feuds to get much out of it. Maybe not Indian in particular, but still.
TTT presently has a 7 on IMDb. I imagine it won't climb much higher.
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