CIA: Love Can Make You Cross Borders! Satyajit Ray once said – "The director is the only person who knows what the film is about". If I take a cue from his quote I doubt whether Amal Neerad himself did know what the film he is making about here in this case of 'Comrade in America (CIA). The name and some of the early trailers which were released are misleading. It makes one feel that it has something to do with revolution and the erstwhile communist leaders like Che Guevara. Rather the film CIA reduces these communist leaders like Lenin, Karl Marx and Che Guevara into caricatures and put them into funny scenes which has nothing to do with its ideology and history. CIA claims to dedicate this film to millions of migrants in the world and does a veiled attack on US President Trump's proposed border wall that would eventually stop animals and people that have migrated for centuries across the US's southern border with Mexico. Is it a formula cleverly devised by the current filmmakers to piggyback some current social and political issues which they superficially and with least sincerity turn into stories with the false hope of making it into a runaway success? In short, Dulquer fans can throng the theatres to watch their hero perform with utmost ease but unfortunately in a nonsensical movie. Comrade Lenin, Karl Marx and Che Guevara might be planning to make a comeback to avenge this political disaster of theirs in CIA (Pun Intended).
Review of CIA: Comrade in America
