Exploring the mind of students
SUDHISH KAMATH
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IITwood's maiden venture, Silicon Jungle is a candid coming-of-age tale of friendship and life at the institute.
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There is a certain amount of honesty that sneaks out of the edgy, raw feel of the campus flick that chronicles the lives of four IITians and their journey of self-discovery during their stay in the woods of IIT Madras.
IITwood's maiden movie venture, ``Silicon Jungle" takes you beyond the woods, right into the world of geeks and control freaks.
It explores what very few teen films have ever done: the mind of the student.
Debutant director Rabi Kisku digs deep into the minds of his four protagonists Frooti (Kashyap Arora), Pakiya (Mihir Mysore), Bulbi (Niteesh Joshi) and Shocker (Abhijeet Mohanty) and examines the conflicts of growing up in this candid coming-of-age tale of friendship and life at IIT.
SILICON JUNGLE: In the world of geeks and control freaks.
Though leisurely-paced and amateur in bits, the film with its motley crew of characters makes you forget these obvious shortcomings of a student flick.
Kukunoor flavour
The charm generated by the near-realistic characters sees the film through, often reminding you of the simplicity of Kukunoor's debut film, ``Hyderabad Blues." The lines laced with IITspeak are effectively funny, well-delivered by the actors who seem to have lived their roles and are bound to make every IITian around the world and the people who know them, smile.
Deftly raking up some of the most contemporary issues faced by IITians, the film discusses brain drain, limited options in India for select fields of study and even simpler ones like personal relationships including love and longing for family, without really offering any solutions.
The film stops giving us a hint of where its characters would go, but without really trying to resolve the conflicts in the head. Abrupt but appropriate enough.
Relive college. Relive the conflicts. Take a sneak peak into young minds at Silicon Jungle, if you do get the chance.
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