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The filmmaker seems to be totally detached an uninterested — either with the subject material or the actors — resulting in a mess that is already messed up  When the announcement came that Bala was going to remake that film, it was celebrated by a section of film buffs who may or may not have liked the Telugu original, but were remotely interested because of the name attached to it and the interpretation the filmmaker — traditionally known for dealing with violent characters — would give to a movie which could well be seen as a spiritual sister to his own  Sethu . Pardon the cynicism, but I half-expected Bala to give a redemptive arc to this morally-wretched universe, and suspected it to be even more violent — in the manner in which it treats the heroine and everyone except the titular character — and therefore more “problematic”. But the Bala Cut, as it would come to be known, is surprisingly cold and lifeless — even by the standards set by  Adithya Varma  — and edi...