GV Prakash Kumar, with all his typical range of expressions, fits the part. His physicality actually helps the movie, as he never really becomes a larger-than-life hero & does carry the whole movie on his shoulder...
Mamitha Baiju, as the female lead, is mostly an on-looker who never really causes any trouble to the narrative...
The structure of this movie by Nikesh RS is extremely basic. Instead of fleshing out the story with a layered study of discrimination, Nikesh just throws a Kerala story-like imagination into this film. It is completely okay to have a fictional setting in movies. But when you are doing that in a story that talks about real places, a level of conviction is required... The movie actually simplifies the complex nature of the conflict into a mere hate campaign...
We all have seen a segment of the population, who shows hate towards a category of people based on their caste or language. Films addressing such political and sensitive topics are indeed a necessity, as art has that political layer to its credit. But when you monsterize everyone from a region in order to create a mass hero, the gross generalization is something that is extremely problematic...resulting in creation of unnecessary hatred...
There is no Malayali character with a positive role in the film.
The movie has a cliched format of storytelling and is melodramatic.
There are no lighter moments anywhere because it is a serious story.
Poor writing makes it predictable. Director Nikesh RS fails in the execution...
Overall Rebel keeps all the political fronts on the wrong side and focuses only on the political friction or the injustice done to the TSP.
The structure of this movie by Nikesh RS is extremely basic. Instead of fleshing out the story with a layered study of discrimination, Nikesh just throws a Kerala story-like imagination into this film. It is completely okay to have a fictional setting in movies. But when you are doing that in a story that talks about real places, a level of conviction is required... The movie actually simplifies the complex nature of the conflict into a mere hate campaign...
We all have seen a segment of the population, who shows hate towards a category of people based on their caste or language. Films addressing such political and sensitive topics are indeed a necessity, as art has that political layer to its credit. But when you monsterize everyone from a region in order to create a mass hero, the gross generalization is something that is extremely problematic...resulting in creation of unnecessary hatred...
There is no Malayali character with a positive role in the film.
The movie has a cliched format of storytelling and is melodramatic.
There are no lighter moments anywhere because it is a serious story.
Poor writing makes it predictable. Director Nikesh RS fails in the execution...
Overall Rebel keeps all the political fronts on the wrong side and focuses only on the political friction or the injustice done to the TSP.