Spoilers ahead…
The English title of Paka is River Of Blood and it’s evident from the very first scene. An old man dives into a river to retrieve the body of a young man and nobody knows how he died. One of the many, many jokes in this movie is that all the expert divers are old men — this old man has an enormous, silvery moustache. You’d think younger men would be better divers but this is a film about a certain kind of tradition that older people seem to remember and pass along better to younger people. Maybe, these older men who are better divers are also part of a tradition in a sense.
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ravenus1
September 16, 2021
Great review, I hope to see this on some OTT. Looks like a bookend companion to Eeda, which did focus on the romance (in a credible and beautiful way).
Have you heard of the Hatfield-McCoy war, a real-life decades running blood feud between families, which also had a romance between 2 members of the opposite families that ended tragically. A recent while ago, I saw Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitality, which was inspired by this history…and apparently this was ripped off for some Ajay Devgan movie called Son of Sardaar, and I only shudder to think what Mr. Devgan would have transformed Keaton’s brilliance into.
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Ravi K
September 16, 2021
Ravenus, SS Rajamouli first took inspiration from “Our Hospitality” to make the wonderful “Maryada Ramanna,” which then spawned “Son of Sardar” and remakes in other languages. I havent seen the other remakes but I doubt they’re as good as Rajamouli’s film.
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