‘Baththa’ Review: Balaji Tharaneetharan Returns With a Warm, Wry Comedy-Drama About Childhood, Power and the Goodness That Survives
Balaji Tharaneetharan’s ‘Baththa’ is a gently subversive comedy-drama that uses the unlikely collision between a feared don and a schoolboy to explore memory, performance and the moral residue of childhood. The film blends deadpan humour with emotional precision, offering a nostalgic yet unsentimental look at how people learn to inhabit roles imposed by society.
