Kanthara. Review
Land, culture and belief systems are the identities of any tribal society. If any one of these attributes are broken, it create a great impact. The film kanthara tells these cultural underpinnings of a tribal society with an admirable degree of artistic freedom and conceptual understanding. The plot delivers chronologically from 1870's when a local Raja in search of peace finds a tribal God's sculpture, following the authorative instruction of his advisor. As the tribesmen refuse to give him their deity, he offers them his land. As generation changes, once the a defied man imbibing the God's spirit was asked about the very reason of these belief, he runs to the forest and vanished. This event made the belief stronger among the people and installed a strong sense of belief. The film shifts its timeline to 1990's and narrates continuously as the land from the Raja is now under the tribal people because of the early offer. Younger generations of that royal family and the