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+'''Achamillai Achamillai'''
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+aka Fearless
+1984 161’ col Tamil
+d/s K. Balachander pc Kavithalaya Prod.
+lyr Vairamuthu, Erode Tamizhanban
+c B.S. Lokanathan m V.S. Narasimhan
+lp Saritha, Rajesh, Delhi Ganesh, Pavithra,
+Ahalya, Prabhakar, Vairam Krishnamurthy,
+Veeraiah, Jayagopi, Charley T.
+
+
+After the critical success of Thanneer
+Thanneer (1981), Balachander pushes his
+jaundiced view of (Tamil but also general
+Indian) politics further with this grotesque
+drama symbolising the conditions of life in
+independent India. The central character is
+Thenmozhi (Saritha), a textile worker, who
+loves and marries Ulaganathan (Rajesh), a
+pragmatic politician whose daily compromises
+eventually lead to provoking communal riots
+and callous corruption. A strong and lively
+woman, Thenmozhi ends up killing her corrupt
+husband. The film repeatedly evokes, in its
+political references, the old tradition of political
+propaganda in Tamil film, with numerous
+symbols and clear distinctions between good
+and evil: most notably in the climactic
+sequence when the wife, stepping on to a dais
+to garland her husband, has a knife hidden in
+the garland with which she publicly stabs him.
+Sridhar Rajan described the film’s opening as ‘a
+stunning surrealist streetside strewn with
+corpses [a]nd, later, we see the evocative
+visuals of men with loudspeakers growing out
+of their throats, each vying democratically to
+down the other vocally in the battle of the
+ballot’. The grotesque side of the story is
+evident in e.g. Thenmozhi’s deformed brother
+born on Independence Day and named
+Swatantram (i.e. Independence) and in her
+blind father, a former freedom fighter who is
+corrupted by Ulaganathan’s promise to pay for
+an operation to restore his sight.
+
+[[Film]]