![]() ![]() Arun's vignettes of how hard the NRI couple strive to live like other Indians is a treat to watch, definitely a first time in Tamil cinema. Often, you wonder if the so naturally shot ramblings between the couple Prasanna and Sneha have been captured with a spy cam at an NRI couple's home. ![]() The film has been written and directed by NRI Arun Vaidyanathan, and just when you think the film is going to capture the essential Americanized life of Indians there, he gives you a slice of the Tamil way of living. ![]() So when was the last time you saw a Tamil film explicitly deal with child abuse? And has it ever been taken as the central theme of a movie? They're living the `perfect' life, like the kind that regularly goes on tours every weekend, attends obscure birthday parties and randomly visits temples and then, a jaded corner of a wall in the basement requires a good paint, and thus enters John Shea as the painter Robertson. The most gripping thing about `Achchamundu! Achchamundu!' is that it deals with a fear lurking in the country: not with ghosts or the supernatural kind, but a real, looming issue.Įverything seems picture perfect in Senthil (Prasanna)'s life, a gorgeous Malini (Sneha) and an adorable six year old Rithika. Yes, you heard it right: child abuse, a theme we have so rarely seen in a Tamil film, despite India registering the highest number of such crimes in the world. ![]() Nothing explains the essence and emotion of the movie as much as one seemingly insignificant sentence that the flick's lead lady Sneha mouths: She unsuspectingly refers to the man who is sexually attracted to her 6-year-child and says "He is old enough to be my father."Īn emotion so uncommon in India and among Indians that the NRI Sneha doesn't suspect the man she invites to paint her home to be a pedophile. ![]()
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