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