I actually liked this movie, though it has too much red paint.
Anushka is fantastic as Jejamma. She is beautiful, expressive and majestic. I think I have a new favourite actress. :) I also like her portrayal of modern day Arundhathi, particularly in the scene where she's trying desperately to keep pasupathi from coming out of the fakir's house while coming to terms with a scary reality. She conveyed the panic and the fear very convincingly.
I have some doubts though - I thought the young Jejamma wasn't in the dance class when the teacher was explaining about the drum dance thinking that the person who entered is Jejamma (but it's actually Pasupathi). So how did Jejamma get so good at it to be able to trap Pasupathi? I suppose she had other teachers after that who continued the lessons..
Jejamma speaking to Arundhathi through the painting..? Making her "read" it aloud at that, for the benefit of those around her..? Hmm, maybe Jejamma got the yogis to put some mantras on the painting as well to do this magic.
Also, in the anticlimax, Arundhathi actually stabs herself which enables her to destroy Pasupathi. So.. wouldn't she also be dead along with the poor guy whose body Pasupathi took over..? I was a little surprised when she walked out of the crumbling Gadwal fort relatively unhurt.
Oh, and the fakir baba has 9 lives or what :)
Anushka is fantastic as Jejamma. She is beautiful, expressive and majestic. I think I have a new favourite actress. :) I also like her portrayal of modern day Arundhathi, particularly in the scene where she's trying desperately to keep pasupathi from coming out of the fakir's house while coming to terms with a scary reality. She conveyed the panic and the fear very convincingly.
I have some doubts though - I thought the young Jejamma wasn't in the dance class when the teacher was explaining about the drum dance thinking that the person who entered is Jejamma (but it's actually Pasupathi). So how did Jejamma get so good at it to be able to trap Pasupathi? I suppose she had other teachers after that who continued the lessons..
Jejamma speaking to Arundhathi through the painting..? Making her "read" it aloud at that, for the benefit of those around her..? Hmm, maybe Jejamma got the yogis to put some mantras on the painting as well to do this magic.
Also, in the anticlimax, Arundhathi actually stabs herself which enables her to destroy Pasupathi. So.. wouldn't she also be dead along with the poor guy whose body Pasupathi took over..? I was a little surprised when she walked out of the crumbling Gadwal fort relatively unhurt.
Oh, and the fakir baba has 9 lives or what :)
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