Kannammaa Writes

  My situation when I watched the highest grossing, blockbuster chart bursting Indian movie of the year = ANIMAL. 🐔🐔🐔 I finally watched Animal. I knowingly put my leg in a landmine. For who? For y'all. I was unable to take the movie seriously at all. At least that was how I prepared myself before watching it. They really used a lot of tomato chutney tho. "Self-reliant India." But chooses to live in the United States. This movie's genre isn't action. It's comedy. Animal is nothing but a privileged, spoiled, self-sabotaging, egoistic brat with a short fuse. His wife Gitanjali is another idiot who dances to his tune. She slaps and fights but has a rubber stick for a spine. However, the fact that this movie is the blockbuster of the year and Ranbir Kapoor getting a Filmfare award for Best Actor (Male) makes me a worrywart. What kind of people are we living with? They so intensely crave for violence, misogyny, gender roles, senseless murders, religious strife, e...

  If you watch Minnale from Rajiv Samuel's (Abbas) point of view, Rajesh (Madhavan) is the villain. As a kid, I never saw Minnale from Rajiv Samuel's POV. To me, he was just a rich ladies' man who played gooseberry between Rajesh and Reena. Now though, I understood that Rajiv is the hero I villainized. Let's look at the factors that rendered this change of heart due to the characterization of Rajiv. 1. Rajiv stops his wedding with Reena at the altar as soon as he realized her unhappy countenance. He asks her if she loves him and explains his position that he won't be able to live happily married to her if she isn't wholeheartedly into him. 👌 Among the men who accost women for stopping weddings in the dais, talking about their shattered dreams, Rajiv shines as an example of not being simple-minded. He understands that if Reena isn't entirely consenting to marry him, life won't be good. Marriage, love, and friendship are a two-way street. If one party doe...