Kanti

Action Feast From Lover Boy

Debutant director Bharat has an explosive subject in the love affair between a Kannadiga boy and a Marathi girl in a hostile environment.

The film is shot in Belgaum, which has a mix of Kannada and Marathi-speaking populations and has been at the centre of a fierce border and language dispute. The politicians of Karnataka and Maharashtra are keeping the dispute alive, and Bharat drives this point home forcefully.

The director, however, could have been more careful with the editing…