Sucheta Sadhukhan

The movie is quite contemplating to watch. The character of Mr. Henry Barthes who is struggling to detach emotional attachments with every other he met. The struggle is something that everyone could relate. The movie is something that reminds one that everyone needs someone to talk to, to be with someone to forget for some moments of the daily tussle. One must be thanked for his/her good deeds. Everything, to be learnt from the watching of the movie. But lastly, one can feel the same with Henry's words: "You may see me. But I'm hollow." A Detachment from each and everything. Just living through the pain.

An Oscar nominated film with offbeat, it feels like we are also the mates of the villagers to find the butcher's buffalo through the forests, through the intertwined stories and finally into a realisation- the human beings are worse than the wild ones. The nature of the human race has lastly came to the front while catching a wild buffalo turned into a savage, untamed and brutal event. Watching the movie, Jallikattu, certainly drives one to think their nature and how that differs from the so called 'wild' ones. Are we civilized or just pretending to be something or someone in this fairly 'good' world?