Raja Rani

Raja Rani (2013) is a Tamil romantic drama you can watch online on iFILM — the feature debut of director Atlee. John and Regina dislike each other from the start. They marry anyway.

Both carry unfinished histories from before. Arya and Nayanthara play a couple sharing a house while staying strangers, while Nazriya Nazim and Jai Sampath carry a second storyline that explains the silences in the first. Santhanam provides the comedy that makes 160 minutes breathable. Then tragedy arrives, and the film changes course entirely.

Atlee would go on to direct much larger Tamil productions, but this debut already shows his feel for crowd-pleasing tone shifts. Stream Raja Rani online on iFILM.