![]() ![]() “ Sattam namakku saadhagama illa, ” (the law isn’t on our side) he laments to a father who ‘pleads’ the police inspector to ‘return’ his daughter who left home out of her own volition. He believes it’s the right of the parents - and himself - to decide what adults should do. ![]() He gets to decide who needs to be punished and who needs to be forgiven. He would do anything to get his way: Even kidnap the wife and daughter of a man he wants to turn into an informer. He channels the authority of a violent state to control his fiefdom. Rudra Prabhakaran is patriarchy, casteism and fascist bigotry all rolled into one. Mohan G brings together his research about all the impediments of social justice, and creates his protagonist from it. Rudra Thandavam is about a disgraced police inspector, Rudra Prabhakaran. This scene is exemplary of what writer-director Mohan G’s latest Rudra Thandavam is - a self-obsessed lament of the oppressor convincing himself that his violence is benevolent.
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