A month ago, without having watched it, I'd been asking people to watch Kantara in theater. To practice what I preached, I finally myself watched it in theater today. Average, at best.
This is what the movie was:
1. A very interesting but rushed beginning introducing us to the dev. We wish to see it more but the maker was in a hurry to get to the boring part.
2. A 45 year old actor plays a 25 year old guy.
3. Daaru, beedi, gaanja.
4. Cruelty on animals.
5. Cutting and damaging of forests.
6. Objectification of women.
7. Violence against forest-officials doing their job.
8. Justifying everything in a very naxalite way.
9. Points 3 to 8 repeated several times till we get to the climax.
10. A battle between the villagers and the villain's men in the climax. The villain literally sits on a chair in the middle of the battle and is unscathed.
11. After the village is almost razed down and the hero almost killed, he gets possessed by the dev and kills the villain. We want to see more of the dev but the movie ends there. The maker was reluctant showing the interesting bit.
You walk out of the theater wondering what was so great about the movie.
This is what the movie was:
1. A very interesting but rushed beginning introducing us to the dev. We wish to see it more but the maker was in a hurry to get to the boring part.
2. A 45 year old actor plays a 25 year old guy.
3. Daaru, beedi, gaanja.
4. Cruelty on animals.
5. Cutting and damaging of forests.
6. Objectification of women.
7. Violence against forest-officials doing their job.
8. Justifying everything in a very naxalite way.
9. Points 3 to 8 repeated several times till we get to the climax.
10. A battle between the villagers and the villain's men in the climax. The villain literally sits on a chair in the middle of the battle and is unscathed.
11. After the village is almost razed down and the hero almost killed, he gets possessed by the dev and kills the villain. We want to see more of the dev but the movie ends there. The maker was reluctant showing the interesting bit.
You walk out of the theater wondering what was so great about the movie.