Kaantha Movie Review & Rating: Remember director R Balki’s Shamitabh (2015) or his Chup: Revenge of The Artist (2022)? I don’t think I have come across any other Bollywood films in the past decade that have failed to hit the mark so miserably despite having immense potential. Even though Shamitabh and Chup had excellent concepts and intriguing stories, Balki was unable to develop them into watertight scripts that could keep the audience glued to the screens throughout. Instead, what remained were two movies that started on a promising note, lost sight of their potential midway, meandered a lot while offering glimpses of what could have been, and simply ended after a point. Writer-director Selvamani Selvaraj’s period drama thriller Kaantha pretty much falls into the same bracket, where almost all other aspects reflect superlative quality, except for the writing. While the trailer and other promotional materials suggested that Kaantha revolves around the ego-driven battle between “Nadippu Chakravarthy” TK Mahadevan (Dulquer Salmaan), a superstar dominating 1950s Tamil cinema, and his mentor-turned-rival, veteran filmmaker APK alias Ayya (Samuthirakani), …