Bhoomi

Director: Lakshman

Cast: Jayam Ravi, Thambi Ramaiah, Radharavi

★✶(One & Half)

Bhoomi starts with protagonist Bhoominathan explaining his discovery of surviving in Mars with his magic pill to delegates and the media in a crowded hall in NASA, we are made to believe. The beginning will leave the audience breathless, literally. I mean gasping for air and the suffocation continues throughout the movie. 

Bhoominatahn's success is not because of academics and NASA, but the way he was inspired by a visionary in his village, one Veluswamy (Thambi Ramaiah). A character who runs around government offices begging for relief following his failed crops, later protests and commits suicide by immolating himself. Some inspiration. 

We have a minister, a collector, a police force, all are fit for nothing and hell bent upon thwarting every effort of Bhoominathan in his endeavor to prove MNC crops are the reason for all the miseries. In fact, the collector's only interest is women and he is shown behaving that way in his official jeep when farmers are protesting. 

If you have survived this far, then meet Ronit Roy, who tells the hero that not only crop seeds, the soap, the food and everything Indians are using are controlled by him and his relatives across the globe.Then the war begins... On, how Bhoominatahn wins his challenge in getting rid of this MNC giant out of India. With just an acre of land and a bunch of so-called farmers who get pricked by a single villain at any given time and lose their vision just like that. 

Was there a heroine in this movie? Well, I don't recollect, but only read the name Nidhi Agerwal in the credits.

The only brilliance I saw in Director Lakshman is the childish portrayal and the behaviour of the antagonist in this movie. not the acting or importance of the role, but the name of the character, Richard Child. Applause. 

Even if you are watching the movie on OTT platform with a borrowed username and password of someone else, you can skip this movie. Not worth it.