Unnaipol Oruvan - Movie Review
A Second Look at the Common Man I watched Unnaipol Oruvan again, start to finish, and it holds up remarkably well on Subin Tv, a new cable tv channel on Jio Tv. The film’s produced by UTV and Rajkamal doesn’t have a digital presence for reasons best known to the producers. The film is a remake of the Hindi hit A Wednesday , set across a single tense day in Chennai. An unnamed man places bags at the Central railway station, a shopping mall and an Anna Salai police station. He then calls the Commissioner and says five bombs are set to explode within four hours. His demand is to release four terrorists in custody, or the city pays. This is where the film turns clever. The caller never wants them freed. He wants them gone. They were arrested years ago, and he has watched courts and governments treat such men with patience while ordinary citizens pay in blood. His logic is simple and chilling: terrorism is instant, so justice and safety must be instant too. The bombs are a blu...
