There's always more happening beneath the surface of great works, and therein lie clues to their greatness.Īmong the four brothers in Madhu C Narayanan's movie are one set of full brothers, four sets of half-brothers, and two brothers who don't share a common parent. One way to empty Kumbalangi Nights of its magic is to read it plainly as a story of 'four brothers.' That's about as plain as saying that One Hundred Years of Solitude is a story of the Buendía family. Kumbalangi Nights is an all-out defence of Cultural Impurity, and it's a silent revolt against politicians, worldwide, who talk about directing their nations back to some mythical state of 'past purity.' IMAGE: Anna Ben and Shane Nigam in Kumbalangi Nights.
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