Putham Pudhu Kaalai Review; an anthology with mixed feelings

It’s enthralling to see established directors showing us characters we wouldn’t usually see in feature films, and for these characters to be doing what they wouldn’t usually be allowed to. You can see this in all the five short films that are part of Amazon Prime Video’s anthology, Putham Pudhu Kaalai.

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In Sudha Kongara’s warm and sensitive eIlamai Idho Idho, two old people, despite the baggage of their families and the cold gaze of society, are allowed to indulge in love again. In Gautham Menon’s Avarum Naanum, Avalum Naanum, an old man is allowed to speak at length about his failed dreams for his daughter. In the film, his granddaughter (played by Ritu Varma), the type of woman whose purpose in feature films would be romantic in nature, is allowed to build an important familial relationship. In Suhasini’s Coffee Anyone?, different women get together to try and rescue one of their own. In Rajiv Menon’s Reunion, an old woman reacts not with disgust towards an addict, as you would expect, but with empathy. It’s also fascinating that old people are integral parts of this new anthology. It’s a welcoming development, is it not, that freed from the rules surrounding feature films and star-centric cinema, these filmmakers are able to talk about an important section of society that’s damagingly stereotyped.

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Cast of this movie consist of Jayaram, Urvashi, Kalidas Jayaram, Kalyani Priyadarshan, MS Bhaskar, Ritu Varma, Suhasini, Anu Haasan, Shruti Haasan, Gurucharan, Andrea Jeremiah, Bobby Simha

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