‘Paava Kadhaigal’ review: There will be blood
The HinduWhen you think of injustice or paava kadhaigal — whether it comes in the form of one’s sexuality, caste-based violence or honour killing — you cannot help but wonder how much of it is endured by women, who are invariably at the receiving end. Paava Kadhaigal Cast: Kalidas Jayaram, Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Bhavani Sree, Anjali, Kalki Koechlin, Gautham Menon, Simran, Prakash Raj and Sai Pallavi Director: Sudha Kongara, Vignesh Shivan, Gautham Menon and Vetri Maaran Duration: 35 minutes each Vignesh Shivan is angry. But the short isn’t about how a quintessential Gautham Menon protagonist would react, although we do get a knee jerk reaction — which reinforces vigilante justice for a heinous crime, reflecting the collective opinion of the public when such incidents happen — from one of the characters. If a fantastic actor like Prakash Raj is what Vaanmagal lacked, then Vetri Maaran’s strand has the opposite effect, showing us the dangers of casting a fantastic actor like Prakash Raj, in a short that gets everything right about an inter-caste marriage. This, perhaps, is why we get a scene where Sumathi’s sister tells her she wished she had lived in a city like her “free” of all this.
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