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  Dual role stories, especially involving brothers, have fascinated Tamil cinema’s filmmakers and stars since the days of MGR. Almost all stars have done such roles. ‘Hip-hop Tamizha’ Adhi attempts this in Aswin Raam’s debut film, Anbarivu, wherein he plays estranged twins, Anbu and Arivu. Also Read | Get ‘First Day First Show’, our weekly newsletter from the world of cinema, in your inbox. You can subscribe for free here The trope of two lookalike brothers has kind of become banal though, as most such films stick to a template: brothers as different as chalk and cheese in the beginning but embracing their differences in the end. There have been a few films, like Kamal Haasan’s iconic Aboorva Sagodharargal (wherein one of the brothers is dwarfed) and SJ Suryah’s Vaali (in which one of the brothers is a psychopathic villain) that have tweaked this template. Anbu and Arivu grow up in Arasapuram (a fictional village) and Canada, respectively. Adhi tries to di...

Mumbai, Jan 7 (PTI) There is no immediate need for imposing lockdown or additional restrictions in Mumbai as the bed occupancy rate, oxygen requirement, and several COVID-19 deaths are low, municipal commissioner Iqbal Chahal said on Friday. During the first and second waves, the decision to impose lockdown was taken based on case positivity rate, but this criterion cannot be applied for the third wave which started on December 21, 2021, Chahal told a Marathi news channel. No further restrictions were needed to be imposed on travel by local trains as only fully vaccinated people are being allowed to board the trains, he said. “The criterion in the first and second wave was the positivity rate. But in this wave of Omicron variant of the virus, two new criteria should be occupancy of hospital beds and oxygen requirement,” Chahal said. The administration has so far imposed only a few restrictions such as a ban on the assembly of five or more persons during nighttime and shutting o...