Unnaipol Oruvan review: First on Galatta
Versatile Kamal Haasan's Unnaipol Oruvan, directed by debutant Chakri Toleti and produced by Raj Kamal and UTV Productions, is a true contemplation of common man's anger against terrorism, one of the most dreadful social evils in the world.
Evolving around lots of interesting twists and turns just like Kamal's earlier movies, the film puts forward a thought-provoking discussion on "what is the right solution for terrorism?" and finally lands up with a quite "complicated resolution" that terrorism has to be uprooted by terrorism itself, which means "sword against sword!" If you've ever heard of Buddha's virtue of Middle Path to be chosen by every "broken man” in the dilemma of extremes, Unnaipol Oruvan would theoretically be far away from your conceivability, but as a film, it is a must watch.
A remake of Neeraj Pandey's critically-acclaimed Hindi film A Wednesday, Unnaipol Oruvan is not a so-called mainstream film with a few kuthu songs, unnecessary fights and lengthy dialogues. It aims to be cerebral. The film opens with the scenes of a former Police Commissioner Raghavan Maarar IPS (Mohanlal), describing in a voice-over what happened on the other day in which his life turned up-side-down.
