Casting : GV Prakash Kumar, Mamitha Baiju, Subramaniya Siva, Karunas, Kalluri Vinoth, Adidhya Baskar, Antony, Vengitesh VP, Shalurahim
Directed By : Nikesh RS
Music By : GV Prakash Kumar
Produced By : Studio Green – KE Gnanavelraja
The Tamils working as laborers in the tea plantations in Munnar region want their children not to suffer like them and if their living conditions are to change, they want to study and progress somehow. Accordingly, if their children also study, our lives will change, and the government in Palakkad goes to the college to study for graduation.
However, Tamil students do not get anything including the basic facilities available to fellow students in that college. Similarly, the two student organizations there are bullying Tamil students in the name of rocking and are following the trend of suppressing them. The Tamil students, who have to tolerate these and somehow finish their studies, lose their peace at some point and join the revolution under the leadership of hero GV Prakash Kumar. Did their revolution put an end to the oppression of Tamil students? Or ended their dream of studying? It is ‘rebel’ to say that.
GV Prakash Kumar, who makes his debut as a young man who wants to go ahead in education and economy as the first generation, in the scenes where he fights against the oppression of Tamil students in the college, flashes of fire in his eyes, anger in his acting, threatens to be a student revolutionary.
Mamita Baiju’s previous film, in which she is playing the heroine, has created huge expectations among the fans for her character. But, they cheated the fans by using her as a character and not as a heroine.
Karunas, who plays a college professor, and Subramania Siva, who plays GV Prakash Kumar’s father, both come across as characters who emphasize that education alone can change one’s status in life and what hardships one must endure to achieve it.
Vinod, Aditya Bhaskar and Antony, who played Tamil students in ‘College’, have been used for the screenplay.
Venkatesh and Shalu Rahim, who play the leaders of the Malayalam students’ organization, have beautifully portrayed the brutality of oppression in their performances.
The cinematography of cinematographer Arun Radhakrishnan has enhanced the quality of the film many times, as the story takes place in the 80’s with great detail.
GV Prakash Kumar’s music has all the songs in line with the storyline and is listenable. The background music is exquisite.
Director Nikesh RS, who has written the film based on a true incident in the 1980s, has set the screenplay around the oppression of Tamil students and the revolution against it, but through the scenes and dialogues, the oppression of the common people like caste, religion, language, workers can be suppressed only through revolutions. He has said from a general point of view.
Though a revolutionary story, director Nikesh RS, who has commercialized it as a way for college students to celebrate and to be enjoyed by screen fans, has taken GV Prakash Kumar to the next level as the hero.
