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Perariyathavar Review
- 1/21/2015 8:36:57 PM
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In his new film 'Perariyathavar', director Dr. Biju turns his camera towards the slime and gunk of a bustling city, where numerous despondent lives get stamped beneath affluence. Denied of the basic rights to live, the destitute thrash about to stay alive, even as they are starved, abused and often left for dead.
Suraj Venjarammoodu plays a municipal sweeper in the film, whose whole world revolves around his son (Govardhan). Not enrolled in a school, the boy accompanies his dad to work, and together they remain spectators of the misery and gloom that pervade the lives of scores of nameless people around them
There are often occasions when you want a film to touch your hearts, having seen the very noble purpose that it has, and yet it merely passes by making no impact whatsoever on your soul that you had laid bare before it.
'Perariyathavar' does occasionally move you, but very rarely does it slice through your spirit, evoking a compassion for its key characters.
This peripheral involvement is all that the film manages to evoke in the viewer, and it's here that the sudden realization dawns on you that this film that tells the tale of the nameless is desolately soulless. It simply isn't enough that a film throws open before you a cultural milieu to explore; it is equally important that it cautiously places on it an array of personages who robustly draw you into their midst, inviting you to be one among them. In 'Perariyathavar' this sadly doesn't take place.
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