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Kaala

STARRING Rajinikanth, Nana Patekar, Huma Qureshi DIRECTOR Pa Ranjith

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The splash of rhetorics and melodrama is to the uninitiated, quite overpowering. But then who in India is not aware of the bombastic antics of Rajnikanth the actor who defies gravity?

Seriously! This is a man whom no force can defeat. Not poverty. Not pomposity.

Kaala twins it with majestic grandeur over poverty and pomposity. Aspiring to penetrate the squalor of slum life in Mumbai’s Dharavi, this film ends up being the poor man’s Slumdog Millionaire

Then there is the hamming. So much of it from so many characters who most of the time hang around waiting to say things that they feel will change the world. There are men in lungis and dhotis running in every direction shouting bloody murder. And it’s all supposed to be fine and even moral because the fight is for their land.

In this mayhem-motivated mess of can the with. the the towns. superfluous and steeped in mediocrity. The inclusion of the Bhojpuri dialect at times makes the scene unintentionally funny.

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Anil’s performance vacillates from sincere to perfunctory at a high rate, but nevertheless, he is the only actor worth a watch.