Current Show

<p>Sathi is a young soda-seller in a run-down cinema hall in a small town. Ill-paid and always weary he finds relief from everyday tedium in marijuana and his friends-vulnerable desperate young men who work around the movie hall. An intense and tender friendship with one of the men sustains Sathi until a train of events casts the meagre certainties of his days and nights into disarray.<br>Slick visceral and startlingly inventive <i>Current Show</i> unfolds in a manner that simulates rapid cinematic cuts. Murugan's keen eye and crackling prose plumb the dark underbelly of small-town life bringing Sathi's world and entanglements thrillingly to life.</p><p>'[Murugan's] characters dialogues and locales are unerringly drawn and intensely evocative . . . A superb writer'-<i>Indian Express</i><br> 'The most accomplished of his generation of Tamil writers'-<i>Caravan</i></p>