A paean to well-meaning papas

Katte
Kannada (A), Cast: Chandan, Shravya,
Nagashekhar, Ruksa,
Om Prakash Rao, Avinash,
Director: Om Prakash Rao

Leave your thinking caps at home. Relax. Let your mind break free. Katte will regale you though not in entirety of its over two-hour screen time.

The movie revolves around a jobless foursome aspiring to wear the politician topi one day, and has an emotive message. It shows there is more to our well-meaning fathers than disciplinarianism, demanding their sons go that extra mile to prove themselves in society. But by the time Katte’s footloose quartet learns life’s bitter lessons that their fathers wanted them to imbibe, it’s actually the end. That’s the only sore point of the film.

Katte makes no bones about its one point agenda of subtly educating viewers even as they have fun watching the antics of the four. If the medium carries their message than the means adopted to achieve the purpose, then director Om Prakash Rao — who also plays the drunken son-in-law — happily achieves his objective.

Watch Katte, which evokes memories of late Shankar Nag’s Malgudi Days with trains criss-crossing every frame.