Karan Gurtu

Kudos from India! A magnificent, spectacular, well-directed movie with an absolutely stunning imagery that evokes fresh memories of the woes, hunger and pestilence faced by the natives of almost all major British colonies. The thing that most astounded me were the stark similarities in calamities engineered by the British colonists in Ireland and my native India - the manipulated introduction of expensive British goods made from cheap Indian raw material and thereafter forced upon poor Indians, destruction of Indian industries, appallingly unfair land management policies and exploitative tax revenue maximisation policies of the British in partnership with rich and aristocratic Indian landowners, the thousands of selfish Indian traitors (just like some of the Irishmen shown in this movie) throughout history who were hand in glove with the British autocracy, death destitution and hunger everywhere... same resounding patterns which speak volumes about the vileness of the British colonialism. The British engineered the two worst famines in Indian history - the Bengal famines of 1769-73 and 1943 (masterminded by none other than Winston Churchill), in which millions of Indians died of hunger and starvation. These and all such similar incidents must never be forgotten. Even though the lone soldier is quasi-Ramboesque in some of the last action scenes, the movie is greatly thought-provoking, with detailed imagery, a progressive build-up and contemplative, open ending. Its also great that it has made some good use of the Gaelic language, a true revival. Kudos!

Message given was judge a person humanly keeping religious affiliation in the background....but this was with copious amounts of anti-Hindu flair. All Hindu religious men were shown as gung-ho goons. And then coincidentally or not, Pakistan and Pakistanis were shown in a highly positive light. Recently I found out that the film director is an outspoken anti-Hindu. Try giving parallel message to Muslims for their teen talaaq, purdah and other medievalistic rituals. Bollywoodians want to live in their own Wonderland and don't want to have anything to do with reality. Certainly not for Hindus.