There’s a really creepy scene where the villain has sex with a corpse, but the man’s motivations are fuzzy and the chain of crimes isn’t convincing at all.
Spoilers ahead…
Ramana Teja’s Aswathama opens rather ominously, with an NT Rama Rao-channelling voiceover quoting a passage from the Mahabharata. It’s about the disrobing of Draupadi, which no one questioned — except one man. “Only Aswathama raised his voice and was saved. This is justice.” A little later, there’s another ominous stretch. A man hands his underlings some money, along with a young woman’s photograph, and asks them to get her for him. (This man is played, of all people, by MS Bhaskar. It’s nice to see him in a quasi-villainous role.) The men carry out the deed, using a… poison-tipped shuttlecock. (I must admit, I’ve not seen this MO anywhere else.) What happens to the poor girl?
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tonks
April 18, 2020
Just about three days to go, but let me be the first to wish you many more happy returns of the day, BR. Here’s to hoping all of us stay safe in these troubled times. If there’s one thing this tiny invisible half-alive particle has taught us, it’s probably never to take life for granted, considering how fragile and miraculous our existence is.
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brangan
April 19, 2020
Thanks so much, tonks.
“Fragile and miraculous” indeed.
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