Lingesan is a boy from a humble family who dreams of becoming Mr India. I is precisely as regressive as you expect a wannabe Tamil blockbuster to be and worse yet, it's nowhere near as fun as Shankar's previous films. The 10-odd seconds of faint hope that I offers are fool's gold. Could it be that Tamil cinema, famous for showcasing jaw-dropping misogyny and conservatism, had turned a new leaf in 2015? Sure, Lingesan looked embarrassed each time the stylist lavished attention upon him, but he was also willingly spending time with her and let's face it, his exaggerated expressions made Lingesan's behaviour a textbook example of the gentleman protesting too much (with apologies to William Shakespeare). As Lingesan (Vikram) walked arm in arm with a transgender stylist (right after having his heart broken by the heroine), it looked like I could be India's first commercial film with a bisexual hero. Halfway into the first half of I, it looked like director Shankar was about to make history.
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