Shan’s ‘Bommai Nayagi’ gives Yogi Babu the space to be dramatic, but the story-handling is too simplistic
- Trinity Auditorium
- Feb 4, 2023
- 1 min read
Spoilers ahead…
Yogi Babu is (sadly) so synonymous with body-shaming comedy that it’s wonderful to see him – in – as someone’s object of desire. That someone is his character’s wife, played by Subatra Robert. The family sleeps together at night, with a little girl sandwiched between her mother and father. One night, she wanders off elsewhere, and the wife senses an opportunity for some privacy. She nudges Velu – that’s the Yogi Babu character. He silences her with his version of “not tonight, I have a headache”. The image made me smile, but not for long. This is a man from an oppressed caste and his livelihood comes from working at a tea stall. Life is hard enough, and then it becomes harder when something happens to the daughter.
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