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2008 Directed by: Madhupal Script: Babu Janardanan DOP: Azhagappan Starring: Lal, Prithviraj, Rohini, Atul Kulkarni, Dhanya Mary Verghese |
The blog has been Hindi film-centric for some time now, and it was never my intention to have it be so. The time has come to remedy the error of my ways and review some films whose stories are just begging to be told. Some are movies I had watched more than a decade ago; some are new-ish ones. They are in all different languages as can be, and deal with different cultures, different people - yet their stories are universal. One thing that unites these next few reviews is that they are, without fail, thought-provoking.
The first of these is a film I watched recently, one that brings back memories of a time when it was not possible to remain untouched by events around us. It was the seventies; Emergency had been declared, and the Naxal movement was featured prominently in the news.
Depending upon the sympathies of the newspaper, the stories were slanted to portray the Naxals as misunderstood Robin Hoods, or as the perpetrators of some of the worst crimes in the history of mankind. The truth, as all truths, lay somewhere in between.
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