After winning the National award
for the Best Tamil Film and a few more prestigious awards and acclaims in
International Film Festivals, ‘Kuttram Kadithal’ a film from almost entirely
newcomers is making it to the screens. A film by brammah
The film is a simple story of an
incident and its effects on various people. A matriculation teacher Merlin on her first day in school after marriage to
her lover Manikandan slaps a fifth grade
student Chezhiyan enraged by his answer
to her inquiry about a mischief he had committed. Hell breaks loose as the boy
falls unconscious and blood oozes out from his nose.
What happens to the child, the
teacher and the well-wishers of both the sides forms the rest of the film.
We think that the story is
simple but the incident or accident may happen in many schools but this script
is effective and school administration, police, media, general effects on
various stakeholders such as the students, parents, teachers, principals or
headmasters who are public and the state. The film also rightly points out the
characteristics of media that are more appalling and sensationalism
And the film have an another
view of having sex education in schools. its valuable point in this film.
Apart from all these the film
scores high in emotional content as it is basically a widowed mother who is
losing her only hope in life and a young and innocent teacher who is struggling
to come out sin, The emotional exchange between these two characters coming at
towards the end will either make drop of tear.
A plastic cover stuck
with the slipper of the teacher used to convey how much she is immersed in the
feeling of guilt and after the incident the Karnan Koothu used as a metaphor
for her situation are a few examples that stand out. Once she was faint up with
this she was standing near the bike one side of the mirror her face with inter-caste
kumkum and another side a cross will be their. Though she is a Christian she
feels that because of marriage only these things happening to me and she will remove
the kumkum.
