‘Narivetta’ movie review: An uncomfortable story that needed to be told
Narivetta (Jackal Hunt) is an emotionally overwhelming film. The injustice we watch in it — the scale and its impact — leaves one with a heavy heart. Despite the disclaimer, the ‘resemblance to actual events’, is more intentional than claimed. As the name suggests, it is a hunt. The movie opens with a chase, which is more of a hunt — cops hunting one of their own. The roles of the hunter and the hunted keep changing.
The face-off between the tribal people led by a firebrand woman activist CK Shanti [ring a bell?] at a reserve forest in Cheeyambam, Wayanad, is reminiscent of a similar one at Muthanga village in 2003. The strike by the tribal people protesting the delay in allotting land promised to them, the subsequent police action, and the aftermath, are all there, albeit fictionalised, in Anuraj Manohar’s sophomore film. His debut film, Ishq (2019), explored the dynamics of gender and society’s take on romantic relationships.
Director Anuraj Manohar treads the difficult path of making a commercial film inspired by sensitive, actual events, and emerges almost successful | Source: The Hindu
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