Wage War

  • 160'
  • India
  • 2011

Mysskin never made a secret of his admiration for Kurosawa Akira and Kitano Takeshi – in fact in Nandalala (2010) he made a beautiful variation on the latter’s Kikujiro (1999), as full of personal childhood reminiscences as the Japanese original. Therefore, it seems okay to describe Wage War, his police procedural turning social exposé turning metaphysical rumination on the nature of truth, as a positively unnerving mix of Kurosawa at his most noir and Kitano in an especially foul mood.

Some of the names and references made in Wage War are very Mysskin: there is a medical examiner called Judas Iscariot (now, that’s Dostojevskijan!), and an investigator nicknamed J.K. (as in radical philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurthi?). But then it probably takes characters with an aura of extravagance to tackle a crime that starts with cardboard boxes full of hacked-off limbs by way of a New Year’s greeting!

Also see Pisasu.

  • 160'
  • India
  • 2011
Director
Mysskin
Country of production
India
Year
2011
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
160'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Yutham sei
Language
Tamil
Producers
Mysskin, Kalpathi S.Aghoram
Production Companies
AGS entertainment, Lonewolf Production
Sales
AGS entertainment
Screenplay
Mysskin
Cinematography
Sathya
Editor
Gaugin
Production Design
Amaran
Cast
Cheran, Dipa Shah, Y.G. Mahendran, Lakshmi Ramakrishnan, V. Jayaprakash, Manicka R. Vinayagam, Iniya
Director
Mysskin
Country of production
India
Year
2011
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
160'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Yutham sei
Language
Tamil
Producers
Mysskin, Kalpathi S.Aghoram
Production Companies
AGS entertainment, Lonewolf Production
Sales
AGS entertainment
Screenplay
Mysskin
Cinematography
Sathya
Editor
Gaugin
Production Design
Amaran
Cast
Cheran, Dipa Shah, Y.G. Mahendran, Lakshmi Ramakrishnan, V. Jayaprakash, Manicka R. Vinayagam, Iniya