

Initially despondent, Stalin is inspired by a group of disabled kids who stop a race to allow a boy to get back up and then all finish together.

People are often not deliberately bad, just lazy and thoughtless. It was a bit out of character for a girl who fought so hard to get her education, but it made a point. She asked so many people for help and none would, so in despair she jumped off the roof. Due to a series of mishaps she had no one to write an exam for her, something Stalin would have done but he was helping a blind student at a chemistry prac. The catalyst for Stalin’s formal implementation of good deeds is the suicide of a young girl who had lost both arms in an accident. The message is heavy handed yet I can’t argue with most of the sentiments. Add in assassinations, explosions, amputations and ‘only in films’ medicine. He is pursued by Chitra (Trisha) and nagged about marriage by his mother while trying to patch up the relationship between his Ma and estranged sister Jhansi (Khushboo) who married a Punjabi dude against said mother’s wishes. Stalin also battles a corrupt politician (Pradeep Rawat) and his crazy father-in-law (Prakash Raj) and their assorted lackeys. That is all the good message-y stuff but I said this was mass. However, in the background the movement slowly gains momentum. It doesn’t seem to take off and Stalin is bitterly disappointed that people simply don’t do anything but make excuses. In this way, the whole country will be incited to activism. Instead of accepting thanks he will ask anyone he helps to help another three people and tell them to pay it forward.
