Jallikattu

In one key scene, an old man sitting in the warmth of a night fire observes, “this land had once been full of animals, and it is still so, look at those two-legged creatures.“ Are humans still basically Neanderthal hunter-gatherers, scooping up everything within reach - even women - while battling to the death for primacy and first dibs on the biggest slab of meat? 'Jallikattu' is a clever, handsomely shot and frequently laugh-aloud sociopolitical critique that asks whether humanity has really evolved that far from its crude beginnings.

- Jake Watt

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