Vipin Radhakrishnan’s ‘Angammal’, featuring a phenomenal Geetha Kailasam, is a beautiful drama about freedom of self
- Trinity Auditorium
- Dec 26, 2024
- 1 min read
The village-based protagonist does not wear a blouse. Is that such a sin? That’s the issue raised by this powerful drama, which premiered at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024, and played at the recent International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK).
Geetha Kailasam gets the role of a lifetime as the protagonist of Angammal, written and directed by Vipin Radhakrishnan. This widow, originally conceived by Perumal Murugan in a short story, is quite a character. She has two sons but she also makes her own living, delivering milk on her moped. She smokes. She swears. She is set in her ways. She picks fights with her meek daughter-in-law, which suggests there’s a bit of a bully inside her. She has a crush on a man who looks a little older than her, but is terrified to reciprocate her affectionate glances. This amuses her. There’s a lovely scene where Angammal readies herself in front of a mirror, and when she’s done, she carefully twirls a few strands of hair over her ears. She wants to look good, and she does. She wears her sari without a blouse, and at least one reason may be the tattoo on her upper arm, which might get hidden if she wore that blouse. At least, that’s what she tells her granddaughter, the only member of the family she truly loves.
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