The British actor of Indian descent directs, writes and stars in a fierce action and martial arts film. Patel has returned to the land of his ancestors to create an archetypal work of revenge.
With three of the only four ring fights in the footage, each based on a dynamic sense of space and narrative. The editing cuts are incessant and go at a breakneck pace; and the shots follow one another without just a second or two passing between them. The second, with the overhead shot as the main exponent, offers a very different, more poetic and exquisite vision of the fight. The third, raw and concise, has contrasting colors, like the social in which many of its characters operate, only becomes unbalanced in the second half, when the Hindu deity Hanuman takes over the tragic halo that surrounds the protagonist. The director has dazzling energy, cadence and expressiveness for a first-time director. The film is set in a fighting and gambling den in which the protagonist, who always fights with a monkey mask, gets a few rupees in exchange for rigging, blood and affliction.