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Some movies take a while to figure out; they are full of symbolism and careful characterization, all leading to a deeper meaning than what you see on the surface; sometimes, there are multiple layers of meaning that a careful viewer can sift through.  Biskoth (2020) is not one of those movies.

Dharmarajan (Aadukalam Naren) is a hard working baker with a small business selling biscuits to local stores.  With the help of his friend Narasimhan (Anandaraj), and especially with some useful advice from his young son Raja, "Magic Biscuits" becomes a success, and Dharmarajan dreams that one day it will become a big business, with Raja as general manager.  He dies before his dream can come true, but sure enough, after many years Magic Biscuits is a big company, with Raja (Santhanam) . . . working on the factory floor.  Narasimhan runs the company now.

Raja is ambitious.  He wants to fulfill his father's dream and take over the company, and he'd also like to move his relationship with Narasimhan's daughter Laya (Swathi Muppala) from "childhood friend" to "girlfriend."  But his immediate problem is his supervisor Ganesh (Bharath Reddy), a smug jerk who has used Raja's hard work and bright ideas to secure a promotion for himself.

Raja volunteers at a nearby rest home, where he clashes with the beautiful Doctor Anitha (Tara Alisha).  It's also where he meets Janaki (Sowcar Janaki), a resident with a gift for storytelling.  Janaki tells him a story about a brave prince who was unjustly passed over for the throne, but who earns another shot at becoming the heir through his skill and bravery.  And then it rains money for no reason.

The next day Raja notices that events in his life start mirroring events in the story, culminating with money raining don on him while his bike is stopped under an overpass.  He returns to Janaki for another story, this time giving her suggestions to shape it into a cool Seventies action thriller which ends with the hero getting the girl and the company.  It doesn't work - Janaki's parts of the story come true, but Raja's additions do not, leading to a confusing day of failure.

Humbled, Raja asks for one last story, and Janaki tells him a story about 12th Century Rome, in which the Princess of Rome's faithful Spartan bodyguard gets everything that he ever wanted and then ruins everything.  Raja is bad with subtext, so he follows the same path.

You may be thinking that this sounds an awful lot like the Hollywood movie Bedtime Stories.  Is this just a Bollywood ripoff of an Adam Sandler movie?  Of course not.  This is a Tamil film, making it a Kollywood ripoff of an Adam Sandler movie.  This is not a deep movie, it's a harmless bit of fluff. The stories are fun, at least, and each echoes a different movie; the tale of the prince looks a lot like Bahubali, the cool seventies thriller has a cameo by Jeeva playing Rajnikanth playing the title character from Billa, and the story of the Roman princess sounds like 300 with even less historical accuracy. And the process of cultural translation has at least provided the film with a very clear moral: Be nice to old people, because they have magical powers.