I am impressed on how people are seeing only positive in this film.
Where is the grey area in this film!!!!
The police officer simply egoistic and want his word to win at any cost even with the warning from higher officials and magically turns to tribal side the moment he understood the true nature of the landlord.
The landlord know he want the land, and act good with villagers. Until end he does nothing to capture land or how to remove the curse by ancestors.
Hero character is typical.
The last fight is only saved by the excellent background score and raw ness.
I would say the movie is average and 6 to 7 rating is good.
In many ways, Kantara tells an age-old story of conflict: of natives fighting to protect their way of life against the destructive march of progress. Set in a fictional village in Karnataka, Kantara's story revolves around a large tract of forest land inhabited by tribal people, and overseen by a forest officer. But told through the lens of folklore and mysticism, Kantara (which means mystical forest in Kannada) transforms this familiar outline into a spellbinding experience.
The story begins in 1847, with the ruler of the hinterlands of Karnataka granting a tribe hundreds of ac....