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Picture this. A pursuit in a dense jungle leading to a wedding in the hills, celebrated with the bride and groom, solely accompanied by their bridesmaids and best boys. Truly an enchanting experience! Among the Muthuvans, a tribal community that migrated to the Western Ghats from Madurai, the aforementioned ritual, known as the ‘penneduppu’ was solemnised on the hills by a word of honour, beneath a picturesque waterfall, with the flora and fauna of the region as witnesses, a paradisal landscape.
The abandoned custom was reawakened in Kochi-based documentary filmmaker and independent journalist Shawn Sebastian’s latest, Muthuvan Kalyanam, part of filmmaker Bharatbala’s Virtual Bharat series, a 1,000-film enterprise that aims to discover and archive India’s rich culture.
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KOCHI: Born to a Singapore-based Keralite dad and a British mother, Sukki Menon aka Sukki Singapora campaigns for representation and women empowerment through the performative art of Burlesque. She is also a Netflix star.
Nearly all her life, Sukki Menon felt like the oddball. Born to a Singapore-based Keralite dad and a British mother, her ‘identity spanned the triangular geography of India, Singapore and the UK’. If she was too brown’ to be British, she was labelled ‘pale’ by the Indian community, which implied that she wasn’t brown enough to be fully desi.
However, growing up as a third culture kid with a medley of identities also granted her the exposure to distinct customs. From discovering burlesque to express her sensuality to starring on the 2019 Netflix show ‘Singapore Social’, Sukki has embraced activism that fights tooth and nail for representation and women empowerment. Defying odds, the global icon made burlesque, a taboo per