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Madras Matinee (2025)

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Madras Matinee (2025)

Overview

An aging sci-fi writer is challenged by his caretaker to write about the life of a common man. Reluctantly, he begins the story of Kannan, an auto rickshaw driver, and his family—only to discover that ordinary life holds unexpected depth and drama.


Starring Cast


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: High

Viewer Rating
7.6

Overview

An aging sci-fi writer is challenged by his caretaker to write about the life of a common man. Reluctantly, he begins the story of Kannan, an auto rickshaw driver, and his family—only to discover that ordinary life holds unexpected depth and drama.


Starring Cast

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

The film focuses on the everyday struggles and dignity of a working-class family, emphasizing humanism, empathy, and local cultural identity without advocating for specific political ideologies or systemic reforms, thus aligning with a neutral stance.

The movie demonstrates significant DEI by explicitly centering its narrative on working-class lives and microcultures in Chennai, intentionally resisting stereotypical portrayals of lower-income communities. It focuses on depicting the dignity and struggles of socioeconomically diverse characters, making this thematic approach central to the film.

Secondary

Madras Matinee (2025) does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The film's narrative focuses on an auto driver's family and a sci-fi writer, exploring family dynamics and middle-class struggles in Chennai, with no indication of LGBTQ+ representation or exploration of related issues.

Based on available plot descriptions, official synopses, director interviews, and major reviews, Madras Matinee (2025) does not appear to feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The film is consistently described as a family drama focusing on middle-class life and generational gaps, with no mention of gender identity or transition narratives in any provided sources.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Madras Matinee (2025) is an original fiction film, not an adaptation or historical biography. No characters were identified as having an on-screen gender differing from an established canonical or historical gender.

All major characters in Madras Matinee are established as Tamil/South Indian in the film's setting and are portrayed by actors who are also identified as Tamil/South Indian. There is no instance where a character's established race differs from the actor's portrayal.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.6

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.9
The Movie Database logo
7.3

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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