Suresh Honavar

If the theme was to explain Konkani identity and heritage and stoke pride it did the opposite for me. Getting heads chopped off and thrown from mountains is so common in Indian movies today, most Indians have learnt to look past the shock value and look for the subtext. Cheesy political propaganda disguised as a romance, which seems to question Christian faith in India today by making associations of colonial past. Licking on 400 year old wounds of Portuguese colonial religious oppression/ conversion may serve a political purpose. Wallowing/appealing to self pity as the crying hordes in the movie depict is more about religious divisive innuendos, when today the past colonizers have moved on in the modern world and even elected an Indian origin PM while Indians wallow in poor me hurting sentiment ..sob sob, all their fault. Movie stresses the religious division between Hindu and Christian Konkanis for whatever reason and seems to hint that all conversion was due to historical force and not later voluntary. Only folks with a self esteem problem use past injustices to prop up identity in the present. The strong forgive and live in thr present without self pity or begging others for pity on the past to draw political mileage.