Thamma, Grisly Take On Chandamama Stories
A Subhash K Jha Review
Producers Maddock Films are tapping successfully into mankind’s most beloved sensation: the fear of the unknown. Those creatures lurking in the forests, almost like God’s unchosen ones, steal into the limelight.
Thamma is custom-built for the audience which loved Stree and Kantara. A fierce mythological passion underlined by a trenchant penchant for tribalism cuts through the product.
There is an ironic subversion of historical data in the passionate repudiation of all rationale explanation to the weird goings-on.
Thamma opens with Alexander (The Great) stalking the jungles with a colonial sneer.
Author's summary: Thamma brings fear and mythological passion.