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Lokesh Kanagaraj just proved that Tamil cinema’s directors can be its next leading men
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The Indian Express
Tamil cinema in 2026 is living through a star crisis unlike anything it has experienced before.
The camera holds on Lokesh’s face, and the expression is enough to make you realise what a terrific actor Lokesh is.
Lokesh Kanagaraj as Devadas and Wamiqa Gabbi as Chandra in DC, directed by Arun Matheswaran.
Pradeep Ranganathan proved that before Lokesh Kanagaraj did, and he proved it at a scale that nobody saw coming.
But in the meantime, the smartest people in Tamil cinema have stopped hiding behind the monitor.