SOMETHING ABOUT GODSE

After I saw `Samadhame' and `Ante Sundaraniki' I felt a bit dull. The first film was definitely nice but lacked vim and vigour, while the second one went in so many directions, poor Naani probably did not know he was suckerpunched. Directors and also script writers do not know where to stop and so there is unnecessary khincha khinchi......till you as an audience on the OTT platform, change the movie. Samadhame has some cute songs, reminicent of circa 80s, musical and full of tamasha.

And then Netflix announces Godse. Must say the name is very intriguing. And the hero, Satyadev Kancharana, known popularly as Satya Dev, not much seen but boy is he good! He is among those who makes a few films and with fairly meaty roles. While the name of the movie makes us recall Mahatma Gandhi, there is one shot to connect to the name the hero has got. Otherwise the movie is based on a Korean film called The Negotiation. Aishwarya Lekshmi, the ACP from the negotiation team, plays her role well and looks good in tight shirts, as does her colleague. Everyone around her is so insulting. Yes, the world is full of insulting men but care should have been taken, but the heroine carries on irrespective of. And that is a good sign. But this happens in Hollywood films too, where the woman is a cop boss and till the end of the film she is only shown the finger till it is understood that a cop is a cop, irrespective of gender. Or so I believe.

The build up is taut and really makes you think, because according to the film, if you are a jobless engineer then the only job you get is of a taapi mestri and here I was thinking it was a skilled job. But everyone and all his friends wear tin hats and build brick and mortar stuff.

There is one dialogue which got to me when one of the friends (only in movies do you have friends who will take bullets for you, push you from a burning car and as has been seen in many films also support your idiotic attempts at eloping). The friend says "Neeku idi ani kotha kaa ochu, kaani maaku alavatu aindi", when there is a discussion about not getting jobs after graduating as engineers and hearing about corrupt politicians.

Made me think that it is true that so long as our lives go on smoothly, we will sit on the fence and discuss corruption but will do nothing about it. Murali asked me what I would do in such a situation. And I said, I would buy myself a visa to another nation, because I do not have the wherewithal to fight against the system.

And with the arrest of the senior cop for rape at gunpoint, I am truly wondering where to turn to. Bureaucrats are out of reach, the police is on the ground but bloody corrupt and the municipality is incapable of doing anything because it does not do anything. Of course the ladies do clean the already clean roads and the trash gets taken out because we pay the municipality to do it and they go and throw it in the neighbouring empty area.

This is not about lack of jobs or lack of housing. Anyways for how many more years will we be talking about roti, kapda and makaan. It is about this huge silence among the powerful that is like a wall, difficult to breach or make a dent.