Mustafa in Daredevil Mustafa is a mystery in the beginning. Director Shashank Soghal treats him like an urban legend. He is the sole Muslim student in the college and he is new to the town. He faces discrimination by Iyengari and his associates, and his anger is not allowed to be expressed as the headmaster encourages him to put his head down and avoid clashes. Iyengari, too, is angry at a community as he comes with family baggage — his sister elopes with a Muslim man, breaking the family apart. He is angry at being denied chances in football as Mustafa is a better player, and angry that a girl he loves prefers Mustafa instead. Coupled with teenage angst and personal tragedy, Soghal gives dimensions to his anger, embracing stereotypes whilst also humanising them.
On the other hand, in Tabarana Kathe, director Girish Kasaravalli depicts his protagonist Tabara as a man who never gets angry. Performed by Charuhasan, Tabara is a dutiful government employee who is chosen as a scapegoat by superior officers, revolutionary activists and politicians to further their interests. They push him around as he moves from pillar to post to get his pension after retirement. They punish him for doing his duty and taking pride in his loyalty. Initially, we do not agree with his views — he believes the British knew how to run a country and is surprised that agitations are still staged even when the Government is run by his own people. But his lack of anger is not met positively by the world. He loses his salary to politics, his wife to illness, his son to the scary metropolitan city that is Bengaluru and he finally loses his sanity to bureaucracy. Kasaravalli frames the final scene on Tabara, moments after he finally gets his money, having lost everything. He finally gets angry as the powers that be mock him with yet another stupid task. He vents and screams and curses them, storming out of the office as everyone looks at him as a mentally ill person. Tabara then gives a chilling Kubrick-esque stare into the camera, which is coupled with the image of three bald old men, waiting for their pensions outside a rusty government office.