The 2010 anthology movie reflects on how bigotry alienates people and fills them with hate. (Indian is available on Amazon Prime Video) Sit back, relax, and let Kamal Haasan blow your mind with his performance. The only difference is his war is not against colonialism but the corruption that is hampering the country’s progress. So he comes back from retirement to do what he knows best: gorilla warfare. But, he suffers a personal loss that makes him see that something is rotten in the country. (Bombay is available on Amazon Prime Video)Ī freedom-fighter, in his 70s, is living peacefully with his wife and daughter in his village. And you would be lying if you say that your eyes don’t well up every time you see the climax scene, where people come together in peace and form a human chain honouring India’s diversity as AR Rahman’s “Malarodu Malaringu” plays in the backdrop. (Roja is available on ZEE5)Ī family gets torn apart in a communal flare-up that happens in the streets of Bombay following the demolition of Babri Masjid in Uttar Pradesh. That’s modern-day patriotism in a nutshell.
To make a point, Mani Ratnam puts his protagonist literally on fire. And yet he jumps into action to protect the flag and gives terrorists a good beating. His hands are tied, and machine gun-wielding terrorists surround him. Until a terrorist tries to burn the Indian flag. In the meantime, Rishi has quietly resigned to his fate in captivity. The Indian government is considering the demand, thanks to Rishi’s wife Roja (Madhoo), who is relentless to secure her husband’s freedom. The terrorists demand the release of a dreaded terrorist in exchange for Rishi’s freedom. (Kalapani is available on Disney+Hotstar)Īrvind Swami’s Rishi Kumar is kidnapped by terrorists in Kashmir. It is imperative to remember their sacrifices so that we don’t take our freedom for granted. Govardhan Menon, are constantly made to choose between obedience that would make their lives easy and disobedience that comes with endless suffering. Many characters in the movie, including Mohanlal’s Dr. Damodaran transport the audience to the colonial era and give us a ring-side view of the inhuman treatment that was meted out to political prisoners in the infamous Kalapani jail, located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Filmmaker Priyadarshan and his co-writer T.
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