Jeeva: Shallow, Convoluted, Prejudiced, Distasteful and Unfair

I belong to the Parthasarathy Community. Suseenthran is convinced we are all wicked, cruel, disgusting and inhuman.

Despite being from the Parthasarathy community, I have a great admiration for Suseenthran. Unconditional love for his work is evident in my facebook timeline posts. I never could imagine somebody adapting Juno and improving it. That was an evidence of great sensitivity to mankind in itself. I was extremely happy that Suseenthran made Azhagar Samiyin Kuthirai and won the best film for the best entertainer of the year competing with films like  Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. I was bowled over by Pandia Nadu. I celebrated Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu, with all my employees at work and truly believed that Suseenthran had the capability to make a great Sports film at some point of time in his career. Suseenthran has displayed versatility and exhibited an phenomenal sensitivity.

I belong to the Parthasarathy Community. Will this adulation for Suseenthran be acceptable to him?

The normal rule in Cinema and Especially Hollywood and Bollywood is that when a person from minority community is shown in bad light there would be another person in the same community shown in good light. Also the general rule of Sports films are to make feel good films, where human spirit prevails over adversity and constraints. Inclusiveness is an integral part of Sports films and generally drives home the merits of unity. There are films like Remember the Titans, which very clearly address, the importance of judging people by the soul of them, rather than the look. They stress the importance of mingling with one another so that they can shed the baggage that people carry about others.

I belong to the Parthasarathy community. Suseenthran  may want to validate what I have just written.

Distortion of facts to incite emotions is a cheap way to sell a film. Fourteen of the Sixteen Players in the last twenty years have only come from the Parthasarthy community is a distortion is an assertion in the film

What is the fact?

I suppose Robin Singh, Hemang Badani, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Subramaniam Badrinath, T Kumaran, five people in all are certainly not from the Parthasarathy Community. IN addition I do not think Ravichandran Ashwin, Dinesh Karthik and Laxman Sivaramakrishnan are from the Parthasarathy community.

If the Parthasarthy community has been instrumental in damaging the prospects of bright sports people in this State, there are atleast a hundred other sports and events which do not have the existence of Parthasarathy community in any of the endeavours. What is the track record  in all the other sports, given that the Parthsarathy community has no influence in any of them. How many gold medals have been won in this Asiad and how many Olympic medals have been won in the last twenty years? Our entire Gold tally this years in Asiad is a mere single digits.

By the way, there was distinct involvement of the Parthsararthy community in building CSK and putting Chennai on the world map, which all of the Chennai and TamilNadu is proud of.

I belong to Parathsarathy community. Suseenthran may want to validate these details as we could be malicious in our intent.

As a matter of fact, human being who pursue all other religions, Sikhs, Muslims, Christians and Hindus except Brahmins are virtue personified.

A sample and a quick look at the unabated trend in Tamil films…..

1.       Jeeva: The Parthasarathy community

2.       Poriyalan: The Brahmin as the crooked villain

3.       Vidiyumunn: The Brahmin in austere clothes, outside the Srirangam temple hooting in bad taste as a lady drives by

4.       Cuckoo: The Brahmin Shown as the most insensitive human

5.       Thangameenkal: A person from the Parthsarathy community, in a Christian school(that is what I call detailing!;) ) as an administrator, as the most insensitive person

6.       Mayakkam Enna: Narasimhan, from the Parthasarathy community, being again portrayed as insensitive

7.       Viswaroopam: The famous Parthasarathy and the first son of Tamil Cinema, asking the Pappathi(A Brahmin Girl) to taste the meat and certify the authenticity of the preparation.

The list could go on and on…….

There are good people and bad people in every community. Our founding fathers of our constitution have always prided them with inclusiveness which means that the Parthasarathy community and the other Brahmins are all a part of this great country.

This tirade against Tamil Brahmins is highly unwarranted since there is an extraordinary amount of integration happening at all levels in this country.

Moreover in a world driven by the mammon and identities are getting lost by the second, language, religion, caste, nationality are all bound to become irrelevant, is it not time for all of the wake up and stop carrying a baggage that is really not necessary.

I have been a vocal proponent of Tamil Cinema and the great progress that it has made especially in the last four years.  When most of the film makers do not come from the Brahmin community and have made extraordinary contributions, why is there still an inferiority complex and identity crisis?

For people who are secure will never make fun of other communities. It is the cheapest form of vilification.

And one small clarification about who I think I am, I may be born in the Parthasarathy community, my identity remains that of a human being . I am guided by the philosophy of Sarvappali Radhakrishnan, I would like to absorb what is the best in the east and west.

I protest ridicule and insensitivity in any form.