Kottukkaali
2024 Tamil Movie
Drama
Never seen a road trip movie filled with such human emotional horrors, sorrow,rage and stubbornness. But only this road trip is a journey to kill that woman's happiness, her dreams, her freedom and her dignity, as her family takes Meena (Anna Ben) to Possession ritual thinking she is under the influence of black magic spell cast by her lover who is from a different caste. The amount of social infirmity lies in this one film is so shocking to see as well very triggering. Seeing The level of stupidity in the belief system and the level of patriarchal control over women to this date make you feel disgusted being human, like how we can treat a woman like that. She has become a rock at this point, she has lost her voice and her desire. We dont see how she became so adamant and still but you can understand from the vibe that she tried everything to make them understand about her feelings but it fell on deaf ears and from there after she became like that rooster who is tied to rock so it wont fly away just to slaughter her happiness and dreams at the end. She was nothing less than a mute animal, just like that rooster. And we see that metaphor throughout the film, right from the start where she was staring at the rooster which was tied to rock. What an absolute stunning performance anna ben has given in this film. There are very limited dialogues like just one or two, but we understand all her emotions through her raging eyes and her soul-less face. Soori as pandi was also fantastic, he clearly made the audience hate him and that was the job well done. There is also underlying dead pan humour in this whole scenario which does make you laugh at this whole crazy journey and characters. There is no background sound to make it dramatic, it's just pure raw emotions you see and it will still provoke you, that's the power of this movie.
Kottukkaali (dir: P.S. Vinothraj) is a film that leaves you shaken in multiple ways. A road trip film like no other, it follows a family along with their daughter Meena and future...
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A unique experience which deals with feminism, toxic male masculinity, casteismand nature! Each and everyone comes inside the frame lived as the character. Love you Vinoth Raj!
Spoiler : I believe at the end soori seemshesitant because he didn't want Anna ben's character to go through such 'inappropriate touching' by that...
I still think our audiences are yet to mature to witness these kinds of films (Reminded me an interview of Satyajit Ray). A film which completely relies on exposition,...
Many Layers, Caste, Male chauvinism, Respect, Adament, Moodanambikai etc allare related & measured understanding through Scenes 👌🏻 Vinothraj shots conveys many emotions, Soori...
Anna Ben is Meena, Soori Muthuchamy is Pandi.The two are betrothed to each other, we are told for a while, but something seems to have gone wrong, and the marriage cannot...
Kottukkaali is a smartly edited and conceptually crafted thriller which talksabout issues prevalent in Indian society. It is powered by excellent performances from Soori and Anna...
Kottukkali may seem like a visually pleasing road movie at first glance, but asyou dig deeper, you find yourself gripped by the suffocating forces of patriarchy. The story of a...
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Not a Koozhangal.
The horn from a silent girl.
Kottukaani" is a film about a maternal uncle returning from abroad to marry hisniece, only to discover that she is adamantly in love with and determined to marry a man from an...
PS Vinothraj, the man again came with a camera and some people to tell hisstory, politics and left us in the middle of the journey to think independently. After 'Koozhangal', I'm...
Terrific unique experience of a road movie of a family where the men and womenare scarily patriarchal,misogynistic. It’s from a truly original director laying a path for himself...