[MannoFr]

More attempts and compromises needed to be made in our industry, to make a full movie to explore/show the grey areas ala Udhiri pookal or Sigappu rojakkal.

ah, glad u reminded me abt udhiri pookkal......udhiri pookkal identified a realistic villain and it was sketched so un-dramatically yet you get jitters....it was hard hitting because the story skillfully brings out how one's sadism crisscrosses with somone else's "routine" path and damages them for no mistake of theirs.......i find it very scary (getting punished for no mistake of urs).........the scene where he misbehaves with his sis-in-law - its such a intense scene.......

mani, being a true mahendra sishyan - identified the real world villain for entire world movies(?) - we no longer were scared of mogambos and sadistic village pannayars - we had something real on our hands - terror and terrorists ........i know i have been syaing this a lot of time but its worth mentioining here ......but mani refuses to go with the traditional characterisation of terrorist in roja and climax ends up a bit unbelievable nor the character has multiple shades like vijayan's character in uthiri pookkal....