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S Madhumithaa
Oh Rene! She has all my heart. I can watch the movie any number of times just to catch glimpses of her again.
I know the movie was made to convey a deeper message about caste discrimination but, there are enough of you ( including Pa.Ranjith) to write and talk about it. I’m here to talk about Rene, Arjun, and Iniyan. If you’re here expecting any reference to caste related issues, I’ll save you some time right away because this article is nothing about that.
Now, coming back to Rene. There’s nothing extraordinary about her. She is a woman we all know. Some of us, who are lucky enough, have met more than one Rene in our lives. Some with even greater luck have the privilege to call her a friend.
Who is she? She is a live red flag to the society, chauvinists, and people with a fragile ego.
Why so?
She is educated, independent, well-read, and has clarity of thought. Best of all, she’s absolutely unapologetic. She has opinions backed by sound reason, but she hardly makes any noise to be heard because she no time to waste on others.
My absolute favorite Rene moment is when she says the reason behind her name. While I’ve been naming nephews, nieces, and Godchildren based on the characters I love, Rene made me wonder why it never struck me to call myself any of those! Damn!!!
Anyway, can you see why I called her a red flag?
As much as we all like to read about them on paper, and watch them on screen, the world is far from ready for such women, which is what brings me to Arjun and Iniyan.
For me, they represented the world that’s not ready for women so savage.
Both men have specific moments when they struggle with unease in her company. A part of the uneasiness comes from knowing that nothing they say or do will ever have an impact on her. Much worse, even if it did, they’ll never know because such is Rene. Nobody gets to break the person that she has built all by herself from scratch.
I can’t explain how much I enjoyed watching Iniyan struggle to deal with the fact that she has had multiple sexual partners before. Unfortunately, this is something still so common in our everyday lives. Women have to be virgins. Oh please, f*** off!
Now coming to the best part where Ranjith decided to show the powerful Rene as someone coming from a powerless section of the society. Again, I’m not getting into the caste angle. But, this is about Ranjith’s decision to show the “woman” as being from a discriminated section. This is despite the facts being otherwise in most of the true incidents that he’s covered in the movie. In most cases, the women are from the supposedly higher sections of the society, while it’s the men who are from the discriminated communities. That’s also typically what we’ve been exposed to in movies like Kaadhal and Saairat. But, his decision to change the gender added so many valuable layers to the issue, and I can’t thank Ranjith enough for this beautiful thought provoking piece of art.
Thank you, Ranjith for being the male director behind this movie. You’ve given me a lot of hope about the world we all live in and hope for me, is everything.
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