Babu (பாபு, Tamil; 1971) I remember this movie as the one that we, in our childhood, could not watch as our annual Deepavali film. Amma was disappointed when we could not get the tickets and had to watch something else instead. Many of its songs used to fill the airwaves regularly, and one of the songs, ' Kanji Varuthappa ', was a hit during Thaipusam at the refreshment stalls before movie songs were banned by the Thaipusam organising committees. Even though the song talks about the various avatars of Lakshmi and their roles, there is the uneasy colloquial association of kanji (broth) and vanji (woman) in the same sentence! At one look, one can easily see that it sees its socialistic-communistic leanings. The story, written by a writer from Kerala, argues about the actual meaning of divinity and the division of classes. It tries to wake the general public from the slumber that God paves the way for us to follow. We are masters of our destiny. The signatur...
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