Urumi: Review

 

A lot of hype is made of the movie urumi. Any work of art till seen cannot be analyzed/criticized in the true sense.

But still I wonder what made the artists behind it work on it. Nehru in his" Discovery of India" says " A foreign conquest with all its evils, has one advantage. It widens the mental horizon of the people and compels men to look out of their shells. They realize the world is much bigger and a more variegated place than they had imagined". One of the latest biographers on Vasco da gama states that The Portuguese explorer has been sucked into treacherous controversy even after 500 years. Now, recalling Salman Rushdie's provocative Portuguese portrayal in "The moor's last sigh", is Urumi too a form of resistance of  a colonial burden? Are we resisting still by portraying what we believe disturbed the sub continent/sub condiment. And is it because reality was otherwise, that the sense of revenge so pervades the script? Are the makers driven only by their quest of artistic vision or are they just the archetypes of the colonized burden of a memory? Perhaps the smell of pepper corns was less tantalizing than the need to resist and Vasco who sought the pepper still is a power to resist through fantasy if not in the real. A urumi as the masters say is a lethal weapon taught last to the martial artist because it is equally dangerous to the wielder.