How controlling parents destroy their children's and own lives
Still from anthology film Paava Kadhaigal (via Instagram)
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Trisha Gupta's take on a new anthology film that delves into parents' attempts to control their children and their choices
At the very end of
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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 ends. One of the lines reads: “Veerasimman managed to escape from the village and went to live with his daughter in Paris”. I scoffed at it mentally when I read it. Because Veerasimman is the terrible casteist father from whom his daughters must escape if they are to live anything resembling free lives.