JALLIKATTU

Analysis, Assignments

JALLIKATTU IS A 2019 FILM DIRECTED BY LIJO JOSE PELLISSERY. THE FILM GLIMPSES INTO MAN’S PRIMIAL DESIRE FOR VIOLENCE AND HOW AT HIS WORSE POINT, HE IS NO DIFFERENT FROM THE ANIMAL. THIS WILD INSTINCT IN MAN OVERRULES HIS HUMAN VALUES.  THE MOVIE IS WORKED UP ON THE THEME SHOWING SELFISHNESS MAKING THE HUMANS TO BEASTS.

THE VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSIONS THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE IS PORTRAYED IN EVERY BIT OF THE POSTER FROM THE TITLE TO THE COLOUR SCHEME. THE TITLE IS IN A RED AND BROWN COMBO DENOTING THE BLOODSHED IN THE MUD DURING A JALLIKATTU EVENT. THE RAW HANDWRITTEN FONT MAKE THE WRITING LOOK WILD. THE IMAGE IN THE POSTER CONVEYS RAW AND BRUTAL EXPRESSIONS OF PAIN, VIOLENCE ETC. THE IMAGE RESEMBLES A JALLIKATTU EVENT IN WHICH ALL OF THEM ARE COVERED UP IN MUD AND INVOLVED IN A RAW FIGHT. THE POSTER IN A BLACK SHADE GIVES US THE HINTS ABOUT THE VIOLENCE AND THE NEGATIVE HUMAN SHADES THAT ARE EXPRESSED THROUGHOUT THE FILM.