‘Rudra Thandavam’ movie review: A dangerous piece of work to ‘erase’ caste from caste-based violence

Mohan G attacks his critics directly who called him out for making a casteist work in ‘Draupadi’, a film I haven’t yet seen but well-aware of its politics. The result? We get an even more controversial film...

A stream of couples and a young group of susceptible teenagers from college, both of whom seem to lack clarity or political beliefs, constitute the dominant target audience of Mohan G’s films, were the audience with whom I caught Rudra Thandavam. Needless to say, it was a rather unusual but very believable sight on a Friday morning at the cinema hall for a Mohan G film. I’m sure you are aware by now, that his films are a laborious effort to cash in on the divide-and-split politics of caste, now coupled with religion in Rudra Thandavam, which presents a very dangerous theory to the audience, sugarcoated in the form of entertainment — one that would radicalise a young adult crowd, launching them into celebratory mode for an offensive dialogue or a parody aimed at marginal sections of society.

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Unlike Draupadi, in which Mohan G seems to have played it safe by testing waters with his ‘ideology’, he seems to have finally come out of the closet with Rudra Thandavam by making a passionate plea to ‘erase’ caste from caste-related violence, in a shocking manner. Allow me to explain.