After some time i managed to watch this film, and i must confess, iam really shocked how a movie like this, which got so many financial support can turn out so pretty bad.
1. The tamil spoken was soo cringeworthy, it was really butchered and every time they said something in tamil, a part of me died inside. I was really wondering, why they were not able to hire a native speaker to rehearse the dialogues in a proper manner.
2. The movie was in certain parts really slow, and i had a hard time to follow the story line. Sometimes i also had the impression, that the director kind of tried to please the ,,white intellectual audience" with references to political matters which diminished the plight of tamils .The scenes from the progroms shown in the movie didnt do any justice to the real historic incidents and also the choose of the actors, who nearly all were fair and had north indian looks was questionable. This film also had many plotholes, making the story unbelievable.
It appeared to me after watching this film, that the director( who is of punjabi origin) wasnt interested in producing a film with the most realistic depiction of the historic events, (which displaced nearly several 100000 people), but wanted to push her own career with choosing a topic which is not really present in todays cinema and many people do not know much about. So for example a white uninformed audience would be really impressed by the setting, the upper class household and the love story between the two protagonists, but for the rest especially the ones who were affected by this dark chapter of ,,sri lankan" history its a terrible depiction of their history.
1. The tamil spoken was soo cringeworthy, it was really butchered and every time they said something in tamil, a part of me died inside. I was really wondering, why they were not able to hire a native speaker to rehearse the dialogues in a proper manner.
2. The movie was in certain parts really slow, and i had a hard time to follow the story line. Sometimes i also had the impression, that the director kind of tried to please the ,,white intellectual audience" with references to political matters which diminished the plight of tamils .The scenes from the progroms shown in the movie didnt do any justice to the real historic incidents and also the choose of the actors, who nearly all were fair and had north indian looks was questionable. This film also had many plotholes, making the story unbelievable.
It appeared to me after watching this film, that the director( who is of punjabi origin) wasnt interested in producing a film with the most realistic depiction of the historic events, (which displaced nearly several 100000 people), but wanted to push her own career with choosing a topic which is not really present in todays cinema and many people do not know much about. So for example a white uninformed audience would be really impressed by the setting, the upper class household and the love story between the two protagonists, but for the rest especially the ones who were affected by this dark chapter of ,,sri lankan" history its a terrible depiction of their history.