Kuttram Kadithal

9/28/2015

Kuttram Kadithal has a lot in common with this year's other release, Kaaka Muttai. As in that film, here, too, we have an isolated incident that, fuelled up by the media attention, gets blown up into a larger societal issue. But, while that film was a feel-good human drama that was content to gently satirise the issues of the society, Kuttram Kadithal makes no bones about the fact that it wants to start a social awakening. There are times when we even sense that the director is just ticking off the checkbox of issues that he wants to highlight — sex education in schools, corporal punishment, sensationalism in the media, faith and being human, et al — with characters talking directly to the audience. But the film is made with such conviction and there is sure-footedness in the storytelling