Kalki-2898AD review

After watching “Adipurush” for 5 minutes I couldn’t bear it just at the sight of childish green screen edit. Though not a professional, proudly I can say that my younger daughter had done a much better edit for one of my bhajans and we had developed some basic idea of visuals. A movie claiming 300Cr budget and such poor screenplay, make-up, visuals!

Hence this time I was bit apprehensive about how movie industry is going to titillate our epics or purana concepts but no, I was not just relieved to see the wonderful visuals, the concept also touched my heart. Now SDG (Sustainable developmental goals) being at its priority, the productive mass of the society must watch this movie at least once. It has shown the extreme worse that may happen to our nature, mother earth if we do not take care of it now. The natural resources that we take for granted, may be a distant dream someday if mindlessly we consume them. In the name of science and technology we should not ruin our precious earth.

The concept of demonic attitude is shown the same way…trying to amass the best things for themselves, depriving rest of the race. The visual editing are of international standard keeping the originality of Indian customs.

However, I feel film industry should take help from the experts in the field of the central theme. Certain flaws that caught my mind were-
* The only green thing that was shown in the grey and dusty city scenario was a paan leaf. If there were absolutely no water or trees how then those people survived, without an oxygen mask. It was shown that few of them had an oxygen mask but the fighters who need them the most, never worn one.
* In current days, since gradually the Indian original epics are taken out from school curriculum, kids are hardly aware of the Mahabharata scenes, the orientation is totally lost in them. They hardly can place the central characters. The first scene of Ashwatthama trying to kill Uttara’s son in the womb should have been elaborated little better.
* The details of the procedure of DNA change could have been elaborated in a manner of story-telling. Till date we are lacking in information delivering, which is a good part of western movies. If they are showing something, the writer should research deeper on the topic and the details should be woven in an intelligent manner so that the audience is not bored of the detail information yet, gets the central message subconsciously. Similarly, they should have shown why there was emotional blunting and why they deviated from marriage institution. Lacunae in the scientific knowledge made a large gap in the storytelling in my view.
* The concept of “Anima” and “Draghima”, the siddhis that were actually possible to acquire by spiritual practice they have tried to show through Ashwatthama when he changes his size as per his wish could have been elaborated intelligently.
* In such a beautiful movie they marred the spirit by introducing a boozing scene…why? There was no valid reason for the same even. Is the industry being paid by the breweries? Thankfully, they didn’t show drug addiction. These scenes are softly putting the idea of boozing as cool into youth minds. At least this movie could have refrained from doing it.

On a scale of 1-10 I would give it 8.5. Hopefully, a sequel is in the make and hope to see some good spiritual and scientific concepts to be addressed in it.

N.B.- I am not a movie buff, nor a regular reviewer. But since the concept, advanced visualization and technology touched me and I felt the need of some improvement in movie-making, lent my own views.
Dr. Viyatprajna Acharya
Professor Biochemistry, KIMS
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