2011/04/02

Urumi


I should admit that 'Urumi' is but anything that I expected it to be. For one, it isn't a historical per se, and this leaves its makers with plenty of space to explore into the possibilities of narrating a fictional tale that could expediently be wedged into a fixed point along the timeline, somewhere around 1500 AD.

Its here that we get to see Chirakkal Kelu Nayanar (Prithviraj) roving the coastal terrains of Kerala, with a golden Urumi to severe off Vasco da Gama's (Robin Pratt) much-prized head. It's been a couple of decades since Kelu and his Urumi have been lying in wait; to be more precise, ever since as a young boy, he had seen his courageous dad Chirakkal Kothuwal (Arya) meeting a valiant death at the hands of the Portuguese Viceroy.

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