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Farming isn’t new territory for Jayam Ravi. He’s been dabbling in it since Unakkum Enakkum in 2006. Back then, of course, his character was smiling and listening to jazz while ploughing the field.
Fifteen years later, Tamil cinema now is inundated with farming films, and Ravi returns to his ‘roots’, but this time as an astronaut-turned- angry farmer… the sort of man who plucks the hair strand of his girlfriend, so he can analyse her feelings. Humans who can inhale carbondioxide, a deadly virus that can cause blindness, atom bombs on mars… anything is possible in this universe.
Bhoomi Movie Review: Jayam Ravi shoulders this average social drama
Bhoomi Movie Review: Jayam Ravi shoulders this average social drama
Bhoomi, featuring Jayam Ravi and Niddhi Agerwal dropped on Disney+Hotstar on January 14. It is a well-intentioned social drama that could have been better, says our review.
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Jayam Ravi s Bhoomi released on Disney+ Hotstar on January 14. Movie Name: Bhoomi Director: Lakshman
Jayam Ravi’s 25th film, Bhoomi, was ready for release in early 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic caused a delay in the film’s production and makers were able to release it only now, after almost a year. But in a way, they have been fortunate, as the content of the film is quite relevant to the present-day scenario.
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Bhoomi Movie Review: A Power-packed Punch at Corporatisation of Farms
We need a Bhoominathan to unify the farming community, kept in the dark for many years by selfish politicians and bribe-gulping bureaucrats – who have been profiting enormously by a system that has been enslaved by corporate giants.
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Cast: Jayam Ravi, Nidhhi Agerwal, Ronit Roy, Radha Ravi, Thambi Ramaiah, Saranya Ponvannan
Lakshman s Bhoomi, now on Disney-Hotstar, could not have picked a more appropriate time to arrive. The film is a powerful indictment of the corporatisation of agriculture and the evil of middlemen (which while giving marginal profits to the farmer, sells the produce to the consumer at far higher prices). The work literally takes the space route to hammer home these points – not that we are in the dark about these. But, as Lakshman underlines, we need a Bhoominathan to unify the farming community, kept in the dark for many years by selfish politicians and bribe-gu
Bhoomi Movie Review: Critics Rating: 2.0 stars, click to give your rating/review,A NASA astronaut about to embark on a mission to Mars chooses turn a farmer to reclaim his land.