Vishwaroop
U/A Thriller;
Cast:u00a0Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Rahul Bose and Shekhar Kapur
Director:u00a0Kamal Haasan
Rating:u00a0

Pic/ Santa Banta

Nirupama (during an interrogation after an arrest): Our God has four hands.
FBI Agent: Four hands? Then how do you crucify him?
Nirupama (with disdain): We don’t crucify our God! We dunk him in the sea.

So what have the so-called fringe groups been objecting to? That an Indian Muslim is shown to be patriotic and brave? That real terrorists (that too of indeterminate nationality) are shown to be misled, harsh but even then human? Come on, even the Al Qaeda wouldn’t object to that! To be honest, Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroop is sensitive and mature - in its portrayal of terror and the factors that instigate and breed terrorism, in its ideas about bravery, loyalty, and courage, but most of all, in its notion of what we perceive to be masculine and macho.