‘Rudra Thandavam’ movie review: A dangerous piece of work to ‘erase’ caste from caste-based violence

‘Rudra Thandavam’ movie review: A dangerous piece of work to ‘erase’ caste from caste-based violence

Mohan G responds directly to critics who accused him of making a casteist film in ‘Draupadi,' a film I haven't seen but am familiar with its politics. What's the end result? We're getting a picture that's even more divisive...

The audience with whom I saw Rudra Thandavam was a stream of couples and a young group of impressionable teens from college, both of whom seemed to lack clarity or political ideas. Needless to say, it was an odd but very believable sight at the cinema hall on a Friday morning for a Mohan G film.

In May of last year, three police officers pinned down a black man, one of them, a white cop, slammed his knee into the man's neck for about eight minutes, resulting in a heinous murder caught on camera in broad daylight. Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Americans, flocked to the streets to protest White Supremacy and police brutality, both of which have a long history with African-Americans, and the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter sparked a revolution in the West. Derek Chauvin, who has been condemned to prison for third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, was the man who was killed by George Floyd.