Connect

About Connect

Connect is a 2022 Tamil-language supernatural horror film directed by Ashwin Saravanan and produced by Vignesh Shivan under Rowdy Pictures, starring Nayanthara, Sathyaraj, Anupam Kher, and Vinay Rai. Connect marks the second collaboration of Saravanan with Nayanthara, after Maya. The background score was composed by Prithvi Chandrasekhar. The film also marks Kher's return to Tamil cinema after a long gap.

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Upon release, it received generally mixed reviews from critics and audience, alike.

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Dr. Joseph Benoy (Vinay Rai) lives with his wife Susan (Nayanthara), and teenage daughter Anna Joseph (Haniya Nafisa), an aspiring musician who has secured admission to Trinity College, London.

During the nationwide lockdown in India, Dr. Benoy tests positive for COVID-19, is hospitalised and dies soon after. Anna, who cannot get over her father's death, gets in touch with a Ouija board practitioner (Mekha Rajan) via a video call to help her contact her father's spirit. Unfortunately, the practitioner who seems to initially help Anna apparently worships the devil Satan and performs a black magic ritual.

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“The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, in Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation, (14 September 2008)
“In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect — connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.”
— E. M. Forster, in Howards End (1910), Ch. 33
“Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.”
— Hippocrates, in the Oath of Hippocrates (c. 400 BC)
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
— Steve Jobs, in an address at Stanford University (12 June 2005)
“Academe needs deprofessionalization and deyuppification. It has to recover its clerical or spiritual roots. Scholarship is an ideal and a calling, not merely a trade or living. Every year at commencement, we put on medieval robes that connect us to a great monastic past.”
— Camille Paglia, “Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf,” Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1991)
“Perhaps it is the deprivation that keeps hearts connected.”
— Sanu Sharma, Baako Chashma

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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