The movie has Rajinikanth playing a gangster named Kaala who’s now retired and living in Dharavi with his wife and family – his four sons, their respective wives and grandchildren. When a corrupt politician devises a plan to take over Dharavi, life comes to a standstill for Kaala. He now has to take law into his own hands and once again fight for the downtrodden.
As a film, Kaala works. It has the right emotion and intensity to keep the audience transfixed. This is one of those rare films where apart from the main character, the main cast have well-written roles, and they perform them well. Rajinikanth, to his credit, plays his part excellently. He not only plays his age but makes an onscreen declaration about it. Keeping that in mind, his action sequences have changed too. His first action sequence has him fight with the precision of a surgeon instead of being a heavy hitter. It would take another paragraph to describe how well the actors have portrayed their characters. It was a master stroke to get Nana Patekar to play the antagonist. Only a handful of actors could have played this with such toxicity – one of them is the late Amrish Puri, and the other one is Prakash Raj.
Kaala himself wears only black or blue, and there are references all around in the direction of Gautama Buddha, Ganesha and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar.
If films are the mirror of society, this one tells us that we need a makeover – and it’s coming, soon.
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