An idealistic youth is optimistic about his future as he enters
college, but a tragic chain of events, and his friendship with a girl from a
different station, will wake him up to the harsher realities of
caste-stratified life in India.
Two deaths bookend Pariyerum Perumal, the starring anti-caste drama
by debutant filmmaker Mari Selvaraj. The first death is a dog's, while the
second is a man's. Death of the dog is a grievous affair for a group of men,
even offering it a proper funeral. The man is someone who is worse than a dog for
this group of people just because they belong to a different caste, one he
believes is less than his!
And it is top-notch filmmaking. The subtle score by Santhosh
Narayanan enhances the emotional power of the scenes while the striking visuals
by Sridhar are highly memorable. Most significantly, however, the film never
sounds preaching, and unfolds as a tense drama. The message is always in the
foreground, but for her sake Mari Selvaraj is not sacrificing his narrative.
And in a moviemaker that's something worth appreciating.
The factor is that the full movie with HD
quality has been leaked on Tamil Rockers and other sites have uploaded the
film, which is now available for "free downloading."