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Review : Mandela

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 by Rinku Gupta Directed by Madonne Ashwin, the Yogi Babu starrer Mandela dropped on Netflix recently. The film is a political satire set in the rural hinterland of Tamilnadu. Yogi Babu plays a naive village barber who lives under a tree and is usually taken for granted by the villagers, until one day he is given a new name and identity, called Nelson Mandela, by the village postwoman Thenmozhi ( Sheela). He gets a voter ID card which then changes his life.  There is an election scheduled to take place and Mandela gets caught up in the midst of 2 warring sons of the village chief, who are both vying for the one vote ( of Mandela's) which has the power to decide the winner.  Big money is involved in the political game of one -upmanship and how Mandela becomes caught up in the cross fire its the story.  How the  naive Mandela now learns to use the situation to advantage of the village is the story. Yogi Babu is perfectly cast in one of the best roles of his career. Sheela is impressi