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For us, these “big events” in the heroine’s life are presented as non-events. They are just part of another day in her life.
A new medium seems to be giving new impetus to the Tamil art film scene.Sanjay Narayanan Malai Nera Maripu It’s about sex workers. The woman’s name is Lakshmi, and she is played by Vinisra Menon in a wonderfully worldly-weary way. Even her voice seems to carry the weight of the world, including her school-going son, a little boy named Karna. A story is structured like a series of non-events. The situation itself can be big. When Karna went missing, when Lakshmi used the word “bastard” and hit Karna, her landlord kept demanding Lakshmi to pay her rent in arrears, and she didn’t know what she was doing. when he hints that he is. And the biggest one might be the lady downstairs asking Lakshmi when her husband will return. It tells the story of how Lakshmi spins her story around herself and could unravel at any moment.
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