Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Chirai

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Jul 16, 2012, 5:45:30 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Chirai

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+'''Chirai'''
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+
+aka Sirai
+1984 143’ col Tamil
+d/sc/dial R.C. Sakthi pc Ananthi Films p Mohan
+st Anuradha Ramanan lyr Pulamai Pithan,
+Muthulingam, Piraichoodan c Vishwam Nataraj
+m M.S. Vishwanathan
+lp Rajesh, Prasanna, Pandian, Laxmi, Ilavarasi,
+S.S. Chandran, A. Shakuntala, S.N. Parvathi
+
+
+The drunken landlord Anthony (Rajesh) rapes
+Bhagirathi (Lakshmi), wife of the village
+Brahmin priest. When her husband (Prasanna)
+rejects her, encouraged by a kindly policeman
+she moves in with her rapist and eventually
+develops an attachment to him. When he dies
+she prefers to be known as the man’s widow
+and refuses to rejoin her husband. A parallel
+story has a farm-worker (Pandian) courting a
+local politician’s daughter (Elavarasi),
+providing an opportunity to show the corrupt
+relationships between politicians and police.
+The story’s impact is diluted by gross comedy,
+cabarets, and a fight sequence inserted for boxoffice
+reasons. Laxmi gives an accomplished
+repeat performance of a rape victim (cf. Sila
+Nerangalil Sila Manithargal, 1976). The film
+upset Brahmin organisations, which
+campaigned against it.
+
+[[Film]]