Kuttram Kadithal- A Review

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.