Rebellious Thoughts

Google defines an anti-hero as, “A central character in a story, drama or film who lacks conventional heroic attributes.” ------------------------ In Tamil Cinema, we’ve had the privilege of watching big superstars donning the role of an anti-hero. Surprisingly, fans have flocked into the theatres for such films and made them blockbusters. Just like how Arnold Schwarzenegger beautifully portrayed a genocidal machine in the Terminator series, many stars down south have done the same and reaped well-deserved rewards. Before we get into the listicle, we’ll talk about the distinguishing characteristics of a villain and an anti-hero. Villains are characters whose evil actions are important to the plot. Anti-heroes can have attributes that aren’t necessarily evil. A good example can be Robinhood who used to steal from the rich and give it to the poor. Even though he was stealing, which is a crime, we somehow empathised with him after he donated the bounty to the poor. We can conclude ...

I was convinced of the fact that Kaala is dead after Haridada’s men set Dharavi on fire. Kaala, like a valiant man as shown throughout the movie, goes out and saves the people of Dharavi singlehandedly. Kaala is dead now(atleast to a neutral fan). What we see next is Haridev Abhyankar(Nana Patekar) entering Dharavi to perform the ‘Bhoomi Puja’, to construct apartments by demolishing the makeshift houses in the slum. As he smells the sand of Dharavi, a young girl(deliberately clad in black) throws a ball of black sand towards Haridada. Now the whole of Dharavi  join the girl and wreck havoc by throwing around black coloured powder. As Haridada looks at the crowd and is trying to come to terms with what is happening around him, he sees Kaala emerging from amidst the crowd. A neutral fan knows that Haridada is just hallucinating because he still cannot believe that Dharavi is revolting after Kaala’s demise. He is hallucinating images of Kaala because he still feels that Kaala ...