Three films on women. In Birds of Paradise, a nut of a father birthday presents a duck egg to his daughter. Egg hatches. A yellow duck. Two girls (one physically disabled) and a duck lose and find each other. Fun, happy film. 2 Penkuttikal, a Malayalam film directed by Joe Baby is about two school girls, a mall and being females. They suspect and understand having no space in an Indian society. They will ever have to squat on the floor; none will offer them chairs at the dining table. Do no know whether the world will be fair to Shreya, Chiyu, their friends in the wide world. Achu and Anagha plead their parents to take them to a mall; parents are busy, push aside a small desire; maybe, if the girls were boys, parents would have taken them to malls without pleas. Perhaps director Joe Baby could have worked harder at the idea, cutting out policemen, loudness and all that. Yet the concept is worth working on a second time. Then followed Malayalam film Vanyam, a recent release, me had not heard of; Malayalam TV channels have not talked of Vanyam (Wild) as they never get time to go beyond the dishum-dishum of Mohanlal, Mammootty and Sreenivasan (fast turning a xerox of Mohanlal); well, Malayalam TV channels have not a programme to be proud of; it is endless repeat of Mohanal, Mamootty and Sreenivasan; it is not as if Malayalis are not aware; simply, they do not want a output shift at TV stations; they enjoy current offerings. Vanyam is not that; it belongs to the genre Malayalis took pride in years ago;director Sohan Seenulal films rape of a nun by three youngsters; nun is dumped out of church; she knows the three; refrains, restrains herself; there are no consolations for a violated woman; even the Good Lord does not come to the aid; and director Sohan retails the tale without tears; no emotional slush; no policemen, no absurd stunts; no 10 minutes at a stretch verbosity; nothing which a popular Malayalam film does; a hurt Aparna Nair as the nun, hurting me. Anoop Ramesh scores over the modern generation of Niveen Pauly and Fahad and Asif Ali and Dulqar. Athirapally waterfalls does the roaring in the film. Will Indian women be allowed to be humans? Why is it that for most of us the first child has to be a son; why shastras dump women outside school gates? How is it no God likes a woman; Trimurthi has no woman; why have women to be packed up for marriage; is a marriage must. Possibly Sohan Seenulal attempts a reply, has one: It will always be so. Women will be hurt. Alone or wed. Afternoon, after Vanyam, me recalled rough instances with Rama. Felt ashamed. Yes, men are not worth it.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Vanyam (Wild)
Three films on women. In Birds of Paradise, a nut of a father birthday presents a duck egg to his daughter. Egg hatches. A yellow duck. Two girls (one physically disabled) and a duck lose and find each other. Fun, happy film. 2 Penkuttikal, a Malayalam film directed by Joe Baby is about two school girls, a mall and being females. They suspect and understand having no space in an Indian society. They will ever have to squat on the floor; none will offer them chairs at the dining table. Do no know whether the world will be fair to Shreya, Chiyu, their friends in the wide world. Achu and Anagha plead their parents to take them to a mall; parents are busy, push aside a small desire; maybe, if the girls were boys, parents would have taken them to malls without pleas. Perhaps director Joe Baby could have worked harder at the idea, cutting out policemen, loudness and all that. Yet the concept is worth working on a second time. Then followed Malayalam film Vanyam, a recent release, me had not heard of; Malayalam TV channels have not talked of Vanyam (Wild) as they never get time to go beyond the dishum-dishum of Mohanlal, Mammootty and Sreenivasan (fast turning a xerox of Mohanlal); well, Malayalam TV channels have not a programme to be proud of; it is endless repeat of Mohanal, Mamootty and Sreenivasan; it is not as if Malayalis are not aware; simply, they do not want a output shift at TV stations; they enjoy current offerings. Vanyam is not that; it belongs to the genre Malayalis took pride in years ago;director Sohan Seenulal films rape of a nun by three youngsters; nun is dumped out of church; she knows the three; refrains, restrains herself; there are no consolations for a violated woman; even the Good Lord does not come to the aid; and director Sohan retails the tale without tears; no emotional slush; no policemen, no absurd stunts; no 10 minutes at a stretch verbosity; nothing which a popular Malayalam film does; a hurt Aparna Nair as the nun, hurting me. Anoop Ramesh scores over the modern generation of Niveen Pauly and Fahad and Asif Ali and Dulqar. Athirapally waterfalls does the roaring in the film. Will Indian women be allowed to be humans? Why is it that for most of us the first child has to be a son; why shastras dump women outside school gates? How is it no God likes a woman; Trimurthi has no woman; why have women to be packed up for marriage; is a marriage must. Possibly Sohan Seenulal attempts a reply, has one: It will always be so. Women will be hurt. Alone or wed. Afternoon, after Vanyam, me recalled rough instances with Rama. Felt ashamed. Yes, men are not worth it.
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