Though it is a bit too long at two hours and 41 minutes, this one keeps you engaged for sure.Īn okay script at best, with enough dose of masala and double meaning dialogues, has been made into an entertaining film with its impressive making. With breathtaking visuals, top notch performances, superb action sequences and thrilling music, Vysakh has cooked a delicious treat. The story is how Murugan realizes that the humans outside the woods are more dangerous than the wild animals within. For the rest of the world, he is the saviour that they look forward to, when in distress. Queen of Katwe review | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children review | Remo reviewīut deep inside his heart Murugan is a lamb, who is a loving husband to his wife Myna (Kamalinee Mukherjee) and a doting dad. Murugan has seen some horrible tragedies early in his life which has made him tough and courageous. Murugan (Mohanlal) is the brave son of the forest, hailing from a locality called Puliyoor, where tigers create havoc to the lives of those residing there. In Puli Murugan, the storyline truly requires such a canvas and above all, there is Mohanlal as the hero, to set the mercury levels rising. It takes a strong will, enlightened mind and a lot of care and respect for all living beings.Director Vysakh is known for loud, colourful frames with all the grandeur. The plethora of complex problems that common people face everyday cannot be solved with sheer brute force. One of the achievements of Sherni is the way it has changed the narrative of how we see heroism. For a change and refreshingly so, Sherni gives us the account of horrors faced by the wild animals in sharing the earth with inconsiderate humans. It is not self-absorbed in the troubles of humans sharing habitat with wild animals. Unlike Pulimurugan, Sherni is not one-sided. The heroes we need are officers like Vidya Vincent (Vidya Balan) and teachers like Hassan Noorani (Vijay Raaz), who know an act of killing is not the solution to all problems but educating people is. Sherni makes us realise that we don’t need hunters like Pulimurugan or Pintu. The hunters think they are the solution but in actuality, they are part of the bigger problem. The motives of these two hunters are poles apart but what they have in common is the ignorance about the consequences of their actions. Shooting a tiger from a safe distance gives Pintu’s ego that much-needed boost. While for Pulimurugan, taking down tigers is a mix of personal vengeance and a sense of public service, for Pintu it is a sport. We would instead find him despicable and intolerable, just the way we feel about the celebrated hunter Ranjan Rajhans aka Pintu (Sharat Saxena) in Sherni. If Pulimurugan were to inhabit the premise of Sherni, we wouldn’t be singing hooray for his hunting skills. Writer Aastha Tiku’s screenplay clearly shows us who pays for all this trickle-down effect of unchecked development that doesn’t take nature into account.
It is the rampant deforestation for commercial reasons, it is unchecked mining operations, it is well-paved roads cutting across jungles, and it is the corrupt political system that worries more about the optics of a conflict than the lasting consequences of ill-convinced policies. The film shines a light on the source of conflict that is pitting animals against humans. A man-eating tiger is not the villain, but ignorance is. Sherni, on the other hand, takes a very holistic and compassionate look at the man-animal conflict. Also Read | Vidya Balan on feminism of Sherni: It breaks the ‘strong woman’ stereotype
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