By Dipen Guha(29 Jul 2009)
"Deewar" deploys melodrama, addressing contemporary discourses within a moral framework; social injustice, state power, criminality, gender, and religion are braided together against the backdrop of early 1970s turmoil. A prominant strand in the film is the sympathetic representation of the struggling working class with Vijay as its emblematic figure. At the film's outset, in a flashback, Anand Babu, Vijay's father, a trade union leader, in a stirring speech reminds striking workers of their fight for education, health care, and housing. In carefully chosen rhetoric he ... » read more