Pooja moves into the hostel to take her next step towards her dream. The scenes between Samuthirakani and Pooja are handled well without getting too sentimental.Īlso read: Mumbai terror attack, Rajini’s big brother act, Drushyam 2 land on OTT
She dies because of lack of emergency care in the village and this prompts the father to make it his life’s mission to ensure his daughter becomes a doctor. ‘Chithirai Sevvanam’ moves forward with flashbacks which show how the father-daughter special bond had strengthened after the untimely death of Muthupandi’s wife. An anguished Muthupandi meets the police officer-in-charge Asha Nair (Rima Kallingal), who is sympathetic but is unable to help him, caught up in tracking down a vigilante ( a la Senapathy from Shankar’s ‘Indian’) who is also on the loose. The film begins with the police knocking on Muthupandi (Samuthirakani)’s door to inform him that his daughter Aishwarya (Pooja), living in a hostel in Pollachi to be able to study at a NEET coaching centre, has gone missing. Moreover, the sprightly daughter (played by Pooja Kannan, whose performance for a first film is highly impressive) is the district topper in the board exams and is studying to clear the NEET ( already a controversial topic in Tamil Nadu, so is this deliberate?), when her life goes horribly wrong. The debutant director, Stunt Silva, hangs this tragic tale on a loving father-daughter relationship and their noble dream to bring desperately needed emergency medical care to their village. But unfortunately it veers off in a different direction and firmly shuts the door on alternative ways of tackling this serious malaise. ‘Chithirai Sevvanam’ helmed by actor Samuthirakani and newcomer Pooja Kannan (Sai Pallavi’s sister) intends to be a hard-hitting film on this subject, and goes hammer and tongs to drive home the pathos and injustice of it all. The girls petrified of the intrusive gaze of social media seem helpless, and find it hard to fight back. The boys use the cheapest trick in the book in the era of mobile phones and social media – clandestinely take photographs and videos of girls and terrorise them. Loosely based on the Pollachi sexual harassment and extortion case, the film revolves around the exploitation of small town girl students by boys with “powerful” fathers. ‘Chithirai Sevvanam’, a Tamil film which released on Zee5 this weekend, is a disturbing watch. Award-winning director Jane Campion's 'Power of the Dog' lands on Netflix too
Abhishek Bachchan's Bob Biswas, Inside Edge season 3 and Samuthirakani's Chitthirai Sevvanam on OTT this weekend.
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