You won’t find a bolder director than Mohan G in Tamil Industry now, probably he has taken the mantle from Director Shankar in lacing social message with evil of the day with women safety at the heart of it and from social responsibility side, he has imbibed the qualities of popular ‘Kaaduvetti Guru’
Kollywood is cramped with storytellers who keep flogging the caste issue or the cliche love story or some extra marital plot, even when quality movies like Kantara and Malikappuram were made in other south Indian cinema industries. Mohan easily stands out of the crowd for he uses the medium to create maximum impact on the subject he deals with.
Draupathi was about fake marriage registration, Rudra Thandavam was about drug menace and Bakasuran is all about youngsters especially girls losing their lives in virtual world.
The song on Shiva, the destroyer, sets the tone of the movie, the background score adds value to the screenplay, the song featuring Mansoor Ali Khan in the movie is a dud and could have been avoided.
The plot is the hero, Mohan takes on the mighty with utter disdain, he talks about issues that main stream media failed to pick due to various external influence. If in Draupathi, the antagonist is a leader of a political party who misguides youngsters, Bakasuran antagonist is another political leader who made it big in education industry. Selvaraghavan and baka have given their best to add value to the plot. Slow motion fight scenes are worth a mention.
When the left liberals make movies and serials about lose moral life with anything and everything being considered fine in an individuals life, Mohan stresses upon a disciplined living for a stress-free life and society. It takes a lot of courage to go against the trend to imply technology advancement can be harmful as well.
Just like street play of Ramayana in North, Therukoothu of Mahabharatham is an indigenous art of people around Vizhupuram district and it’s dying. There are only a handful left to teach the art. Many of us might not even know the characters of Mahabharatham associated with Bheema. Mohan has deftly adapted the Mahabharata characters of Bheem and Bakasuran to contemporary times and has handled it well.
Bakasuran is a must watch, just like Draupathi, for families with a girl child in school or college. Today, we see a lot of personalities masquerading as journalists and activists who virtue-signal about freedom of choice and what not. Some of them position themselves as feminists while being a sexual predator.
Yes, it is important to ‘discipline’ and sensitize boys as well. But no matter what, there will always be sexual predators around who will not hesitate to take advantage of women’s so-called ‘freedom of choice’. There needs to be a Bakasuran to tell girls and their parents that – only they can take care of themselves. So, while the likes of elitist alleged ‘film critics’ can rubbish th as ‘Bakwaasuran’, the film will definitely hit the chord of a commoner like it did in the case of Draupathi and Rudra Thandavam. Mohan G deserves an award not for anything else but for rubbing in the nose of these elitist snobs.
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