Paradesi

I endorse your Anger nay Rage, Bala

I was quite iffy about seeing this film since there were widespread reviews of the movie dripping in melancholy.

Thematically this may not be a period film, this quite contemporary.

Has colonialism not been replaced by neo-colonialism? Have the Microsofts, the Googles, Apples, and the other technology companies not taken the place of East India Company? Our New 'Kanganiars" are represented by the large IT and ITES service organization. What is the environment under which most of the employees work in large corporations. Indians remain servile. We do not create value. We capture value.

Commerce rules the roost and the stock markets determines the fates of cogs in the machines. Financial performance quarter on quarter is the prime determinant of existence and survival. Therefore most of the employees live in servitude and insensitivity is a rampant world wide phenomenon. Everything is commerce including Religion.

Bala lays a beautiful foundation in a flawless first half to set up a brutal no holds barred display of unadulterated rage in the second half. Remember, Bharati's saying, Even if a single man does not have food, let us destroy this universe. With the kind of madness around, anybody with an ounce of sensitivity is bound to cut loose and Bala, blessed with tonnes of it, does so in style.

GV Prakash music is very very special. It kind of intertwines with narrative elegantly and adds to the mood. One will have to listen to it over and over again to digest the magnificence.

For the courage and conviction to craft a movie of great quality and with no commercial element in it, for the tremendous thought process and the extraordinary work, for the wit, sarcasm, sensitivity and infinite rage, Hats of to you, Bala!!!!

For me there was not an ounce of melancholy, I was quite delirious with Joy.