Kaala Review Live Updates

• IndiaGlitz, [Thursday,June 07 2018]

• The film just started. Run time is 166 minutes. Watch this space for LIVE updates [ 8:50 am ]
• Marxist view of land ownership dynamics is narrated during the titles. Sampath Raj enters the screen as a landed interest [ 8:55 am ]
• Rajinikanth's intro happens after a protest gone wrong. Kaala is seen playing cricket with children [ 9:01 am ]
• Rajinikanth delivers his first punch dialogue about what the oppressed can do if law is used against them. This is when the Censor Board gives a mute. Setting ah, CBFC? [ 9:03 am ]
• 'Naa maava nalla sirutha puli, raa,' Eeswari Rao says about Rajinikanth. Anjali Patil seen as a gutsy girl. Samuthirakani set to have repartees with everyone around. [ 9:11 am ]
• Huma Qureshi is Zareena, an Indian expatriate who comes to Dharavi to better their lives. The proceedings are leisurely. Rajinikanth is not the film's only focus till now [ 9:22 am ]
• It's time for nostalgia. Clearly, the director has to convince the audience that the Rajini-Huma love story is not forced. Otherwise, it will be a major complaint. [ 9:32 am ]
• Revolt is not about reading revolutionary literature. It's about understanding the roots. Kaala strikes back in a part-comic, part-emotional scene [ 9:48 am ]
• Kaala just outdid the goons with an umbrella, predominantly. Nana Patekar's character to gain prominence from now. [ 10:09 am ]
• The interval ends on a mass note. 'Nikal', Kaala says and his supporters break into a rap [ 10:14 am ]
• The second half starts off on an underwhelming note. Family conversations are always almost loud. Familiar tropes like children growing up to have values different to that of parents abound. [ 10:35 am ]
• Will Kaala Seth survive the onslaught of the villain? The film now badly needs to perk up its style quotient [ 10:48 am ]
• The film is laced with agenda-driven symbolism. Some shots could lead to opinion pieces written in Editorial pages for and against the innate meanings conveyed. [ 11:01 am ]
• Rajinikanth submits to director Ranjith's vision, saying even dialogues that go against the grain. The second half is largely bland thus far with rare moments of heroism. [ 11:12 am ]
• Police atrocities, engineered communal riots, protests - these are narrated as an old-style story [ 11:24 am ]
• Ravana has won. PS.Ranjith makes the climax intriguing, not forgetting to lace it with convenient symbolism. The end [ 11:38 am ]