Sandip Balakrishnan

The world we live in.... The clincher: There is nothing more engaging for an Indian audience than being served the truth on a platter.And Attaboy ,Pataal Lok does it and more.Would we like making our families sit through the thrill,the mirth,the gore just to subject them to the very good food of truth our systems need.A highly dissected subject line.These Badlands exist out there and inside us and will we be bold enough to break the misconceptions that we are insulated.There is a rustic charm to Chitrakoot and it’s inhabitants which has been explored so intricately that we feel undone by the sheer fact that despite extensive travel of the Indian there are so much of these lands that deceive the eye.Badlands is not as much in the geography as much in the minds of the homosapiens who inhabit the geography.How many Vishal Tyagi’s has the very badlands of our mind created by its sheer discrimination?Isnt Hathi Ram you me and many more fighting their own demons every day.Was Cheeni destined to end up the way He or is it She ended up if not for the badlands of the minds around her.Sanjeev Mehra had a Dolly around him fighting her own battle in the badlands of her highly delicate system and the media tycoon created a world outside the same forcing the creation of a Savitri who inadvertently saves his life.Meditation is a panacea to many a inhabitants of the badlands of stress.DCP Bhagat has had no other resort but mediatate to medicate his highly abused existence in this world.The gun we saw in the hands of Hathi’s son would have been in the hands of any son of India if we do not start digressing from the bare truth that psychologically there is more than just aspiring parents.BADLANDS.Look at the eyes of the prisoner who shags off at the sight of Cheeni by his side when they are having their bath.All keep on asking why rapes.Introspect! The high and dry feel: Would there have been a better climax to such a powerful portrayal.Did we need Hathi Ram to bring an end to Vishal Tyagi the misguided soul. There is so much to like in this water tight script and beautifully directed piece of art and the characters continue to live in you long after the last credits have scrolled up.Isn’t it a gauge of the Badlands we all live in!!Pataal Lok is inherently our world!