Blood Lines
Sai and Prakash Raj in a still from Oor Iravu
A new Tamil anthology film makes a flawed but genuine attempt to grapple with the tragic effects of our national preoccupation -- ‘family honour’.
At the very end of
Love Panna Uttranum, Vignesh Shivan’s segment in the newly released
Tamil anthology film Paava Kadhaigal (Sinful Tales), there is a textual postscript that tells us what happened to the characters after the film’s end. One of the lines read: “Veerasimman managed to escape from the village and went to live with his daughter in Paris.” I scoffed mentally when I read it. because