Jeo Baby’s ‘Kaathal – The Core’ is a simple, moving issue-movie revolving around a divorce

The film features Mammootty and Jyothika. The story chooses idealism over realism, and that’s perhaps the way God would have wanted it.

The first time we see Omana (Jyothika) is in church. Salu K Thomas’s camera sweeps around the room, starting with God and stopping at Omana. It’s perhaps a fitting equation, for she, too, has been bearing a cross for many years. (Many frames in the film carry religious imagery.) The difference is that Omana is not going to sacrifice herself. She is a good Christian, but she is also a modern woman with a mind of her own. She believes in forgiveness and compassion and understanding, but she also will not be a pushover. She will not turn the other cheek. Jeo Baby’s Kaathal – The Core can be seen as a sequel (in spirit) to The Great Indian Kitchen. This, too, is an “issue movie”. Here, too, we have a woman who has been oppressed by a patriarchal, traditional society. Here, too, the husband is the “culprit”, so to speak – the oppressor. Here, too, there is the woman’s desire to break free from the chains that bind her. But this is a much kinder, less angrier movie than Kitchen.

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