Mughizh Movie Review: A touching exploration of grief

Vijay Sethupathi’s 62-minute film is a heartwarming tale that explores themes of grief, affection, and parenthood

Bhuvanesh Chandar

(Originally published on 10th October 2021)

Most of us have grown up being frightful of one thing or the other. Quite a few are raised to be scared of dogs, for instance, like the young Kavya (Sreeja Vijay Sethupathi) in Mughizh. The film is a story about a family of three, Kavya, and her parents, Radhika (Regina Cassandra), Vijay (Vijay Sethupathi). In order to help Kavya overcome her fear of dogs, Vijay brings home a beagle pup, and they name him Scooby. Kavya learns to love, and Scooby becomes an adorable, integral part of the family. However, a tragedy strikes the family, and they struggle to pull themselves together to overcome grief.

In Mughizh, Scooby could well be said to be the lead character. Director Karthik Swaminathan doesn’t use Scooby as just another narrative tool. It’s not just Kavya who takes time to get used to Scooby; the latter too takes time to warm up to the family. The dog has his own traits that are shown with so much detail and deliberation. Take those beautiful scenes of Scooby welcoming his dad every evening when he returns from work. He even gets jealous when the humans won’t give him the attention he’s used to getting. So moving is Scooby’s character arc that even I, who have never raised a pet, was left feeling overwhelmed.

I also loved how the story isn’t restrained to…………..

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