Kuttram Kadithal: Tami Film: Noble, yet not inclusive and Hypocritical

When  you see Kuttram Kadithal, you cannot but remember In My Country.

IN My country is A beautiful and important film about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It will engage and influence not only South Africans, but people all over the world concerned with the great questions of human reconciliation, forgiveness, and tolerance.

In My Country left me moved and touched. The perpetrator of a crime would go about describing the crime to the person to whom he or she inflicted the crime and then seek forgiveness. Often the perpetrator would get an opportunity to regret and the affected party would forgive and then there would be reconciliation.

Kuttram Kadithal, attempts a variation. The perpetrator does not commit a crime,  ends up owning an act of indiscretion. The narrative explores the guilt of the perpetrator and drives home that redemption indeed lies in seeking forgiveness and forgiving, .

While the director sets up the plot with a lot of thought, he is unable to add enough meat to the narrative after the tension is built and is completely lost.

Human act of owning up, a value has to be necessarily associated with conscience and not with any religious beliefs and ideology.

In the true grammar of Tamil Cinema, The Christian, as always has to be Good, the Communist always concerned about the fellow human being, and the Tambrahm has to be the spineless skunk!!!

As hypocritical as it can get, the director takes necessary help from another  Tambrahm,  Tambrahm poet, Mahakalavi Bharathi, to not only put back the movie on to the track, but use "Chinnachiru Kileye" to magical use leading to climax of  forgiveness and redemption.