Vishwaroopam (Tamil)
2013, NR, 147 min.
Directed by Kamal Haasan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Rahul Bose, Jaideep Ahlawat.

Not reviewed at press time. A maze of events in the past and present reveal a terrorist plot to trigger a blast in New York. Simultaneously made in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi languages, the film has become an object of controversy because Muslim protests have caused it to be banned in Tamil and several other south Indian states.

This article appears in February 1 • 2013.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.