Mahanadhi
what does a little girl who lives in a family of three -with a little brother-taken care of by only the grandmother,do when the grandmother unexpectedly falls ill? in search of money, she approaches the wrong people for work and they certainly provide her with some. driven into prostitution and sold to a flesh trader, she is pummeled to the depths of agony and never allowed to raise her little fingers up. she is crushed by hoardes of paedophiles all seeking their moments of pleasure with innocence until she is rescued once again by her father. this is the crux of the brilliantly made tamil film "mahanadhi".
as all good movies do, this movie brought to light a perennial problem which haunts this society but one which the bourgeois conveniently chooses to ignore- pretend it never exists or that it happens to very few to even take notice of. are justified to ignore it simply because only one person suffers? what about the thousands of tiny voices which cry out from the red light districts of mumbai, chennai, calcutta or from every corner of this world? are we expending the innocent lives of kids, whose lives are spent in satisfying the sexual appetite of men - the very men who work in your factory, the very men who drive your buses and transport your bank balances?
Oh, its all %$#$%$#@$#.
as all good movies do, this movie brought to light a perennial problem which haunts this society but one which the bourgeois conveniently chooses to ignore- pretend it never exists or that it happens to very few to even take notice of. are justified to ignore it simply because only one person suffers? what about the thousands of tiny voices which cry out from the red light districts of mumbai, chennai, calcutta or from every corner of this world? are we expending the innocent lives of kids, whose lives are spent in satisfying the sexual appetite of men - the very men who work in your factory, the very men who drive your buses and transport your bank balances?
Oh, its all %$#$%$#@$#.
posted by littlecow at
11:05 PM
1 Comments:
A reader breezes by,
She sees something she incidentally was talking about just this morn,
She stops by to clutter the net a wee bit more.
Like you rightly said this was one well made movie. I remember how I felt so vulnerable when i saw it and i needed by dad to cuddle next to and feel safe.
Now all those feminists may cry out loud and clear "Ah, u men we hate you". But like always they see a very warped and contorted picture.
What about the sufferer called Kamal who lives in hell that minute, when he sees his daughter swinging her legs facing away from him in the brothel? Or that night when he hears his daughter speaking in her sleep about how she has had enough of "it".
A daughter, a father, a Woman, a Man all become victims that very moment.
So, much as those feminists would love to make this a girl guy issue I think it goes way beyond all of that.
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