Sinister Designs On a weekend when a civil war is raging in Manipur, it is only logical that the most trending topic on Indian Twitter is an action film. Called Adipurush, the director Om Raut says his film is “a work of worship”. Inspired by the Valmiki Ramayana, the film inspired over half a million tweets on Saturday afternoon, when I hauled myself out of my couch to go see it. It’s a tedious action film, where the actors are largely props to zettabytes, or perhaps yottabytes, of computer graphics. When they do have lines to deliver, they are largely uninspiring, and underlined by pauses and cuts to scenery that is the 21st century equivalent of calendar art - lurid, exaggerated, and peopled with flora and fauna that liberally cross climatic zones every couple of seconds.
Monkeying With Hanuman
Monkeying With Hanuman
Monkeying With Hanuman
Sinister Designs On a weekend when a civil war is raging in Manipur, it is only logical that the most trending topic on Indian Twitter is an action film. Called Adipurush, the director Om Raut says his film is “a work of worship”. Inspired by the Valmiki Ramayana, the film inspired over half a million tweets on Saturday afternoon, when I hauled myself out of my couch to go see it. It’s a tedious action film, where the actors are largely props to zettabytes, or perhaps yottabytes, of computer graphics. When they do have lines to deliver, they are largely uninspiring, and underlined by pauses and cuts to scenery that is the 21st century equivalent of calendar art - lurid, exaggerated, and peopled with flora and fauna that liberally cross climatic zones every couple of seconds.