Freedom Battle film assessment: An anthology value your time

The title of director Akhil Anilkumar’s movie is Geethu Unchained, which is a wordplay on Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Much like the Hollywood western, this movie is the revenge of an oppressed in opposition to the oppressor. Our heroine Geethu, performed by an lively Rajisha Vijayan, fights in opposition to patriarchy. She is an impartial and well-earning girl. She turns into ashamed of her household and the particular person of curiosity among the many neighbourhood gossip when she calls off her engagement along with her boyfriend. She is in love with him. And the person she dated begins to indicate some drastic modifications after they each resolve to get married. He turns into extra invasive, dominating and begins to regulate her life. What’s going to our heroine select – her freedom or love sans freedom?

Director Kunjila Maschillamani takes a documentary-style method to look at the issues of working-class girls within the movie Penkoottu. And once you consider it, no different fashion of narration would have performed justice to the topic and given us an unfiltered take a look at the issues of girls on the office. Sure, Srindaa splendidly sinks her tooth into the position of a salesgirl, who fights for primary rights. However, it’s the non-professional actors equivalent to Viji Penkoottu, who go away an enduring impression with their spontaneity. The lady who quits her job and begins her personal meals enterprise, particularly, produces some performing moments that educated actors received’t be capable of pull off. And the movie underlines the vital message – for those who don’t ask, you shall by no means get it.

Francies Louis’s Ration offers with a quite simple topic. It tackles the on a regular basis fact of our life. One thing that all of us are totally conscious of however by no means acknowledge. The movie opens with Kabini Haridas’ character packing off the party leftovers at her residence and giving it to her rich neighbour. The subsequent day, the neighbour woman returns to her home with an enormous chunk of an costly fish and asks Haridas’ daughter to maintain it within the freezer. When Haridas’ character returns residence and finds out the place it got here from, she thinks of it because the return reward for final evening’s chapati and rooster curry. And he or she prepares a tasty fish curry for dinner. The subsequent day, the neighbour woman comes residence, asking for the fish she gave yesterday as a result of there was no house in her gigantic fridge. The scenario turns right into a matter of self-respect. And Kabini Haridas successfully channels the ache stemming from inequality and poverty by means of her drained eyes as the remainder of her face is roofed with the face masks.

Jeo Child makes use of the luxurious inexperienced environment and an enormous home to indicate us that the struggling of previous age is widespread throughout individuals of all sections of the society in Outdated Age House. All of us turn out to be prisoners of our doings. Even because the theme of thankless youngsters not returning the telephone calls of fogeys or making an attempt to eliminate them of their previous age isn’t new, the way in which Jeo Child brings out the unsaid pains and challenges of previous individuals by means of the various moods and environment, makes this movie a stable piece of cinema.

Jithin Issac Thomas’ Pra.Thoo.Mu jogged my memory of a scene from Troy. When Agamemnon berates Achilles for displaying up late for the battle, Achilles decides to stop. “Maybe, it is best to battle him,” he says whereas going again to his horse. Agamemnon stands there with no response. However on the insistence of one of many king’s ministers, Achilles agrees to battle for Agamemnon. Earlier than he goes off to battle, Achilles wonders, ”Think about a king who fights his personal battles. Wouldn’t that be a sight?” The interpretation of Pra.Thoo.Mu is The Emperor Has An Urge To Shit. And the movie is all concerning the employees who clear septic tanks telling an influence drunk, boastful minister, who’s the modern-day royalty, to choose up his personal sh**t.

Freedom Battle is streaming on SonyLiv.