Paava Kadhaigal (பாவ கதைகள், Sinful Tales, Tamil, 2020) Netflix Miniseries S1, E1-4. From a movie-making, storytelling or cinematographic point of view, this anthology of four stories hit the nail and gets an all-star rating. It also deserves an A+ for the attention-grabbing edge of the seat type of suspense in my books. It is all hunky-dory for entertainment value, but somehow, I could not help it but compare it to the novel 'Mother India' which came out in 1927 when the heat of self-rule was very much in everybody lips. It can be described as a polemic book that attacked the practices, religion and every fibre of Indian society. Katherine Mayo, the author, a historian by training, thought that India was not fit for self-rule and independence looking at India's treatment of India's women, animals and the untouchables. What do you know? Despite all the leaps and bounds that the society had bounced, the storytellers decided that the old formula of societal discrimination...
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