MAMI 2023, IFFK 2023: Prasanth Vijay’s ‘Daayam’ is a beautiful coming-of-age story of loss and learning to cope

Prasanth Vijay made his debut with , where the protagonist was a nine-year-old boy who becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming invisible. The protagonist of Prasanth’s second feature is a young woman in the twelfth standard, played by Aathira Rajeev. Her name is Kalyani, and she, too, deals with a kind of invisibility: the absence of her recently deceased mother. The film opens with the aftermath of the death. Various well-meaning relatives buzz about, as Kalyani and her father Raghu (Pradeep Geedha) sit in a daze. As a nuclear unit, Raghu and his wife did not believe in rituals. But society will have its way, and so the relatives organise a purification rite because Kalyani’s mother died on an “inauspicious day”. All the woman’s possessions have to be burned, apparently, and in the nick of time, Kalyani saves a notebook filled with handwritten recipes.

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