Dhoolpeta

Shine On Shadow World

Why another gangster movie, you may ask. If it is interesting, why not. Dhoolpet (a dubbed version of the Tamil movie Puthupetta) manages have a look at the violence that is so typical to the underworld with rare empathy and emotion. It chronicles the life of a gangster; or rather it chronicles the life of an ordinary person who ends up as a warlord due to the connivance of scary circumstances.

The film's strength lies in its soft view of…