![]() The debutant director, Stunt Silva, hangs this tragic tale on a loving father-daughter relationship and their noble dream to bring desperately needed emergency medical care to their village. ![]() But unfortunately it veers off in a different direction and firmly shuts the door on alternative ways of tackling this serious malaise. ‘Chithirai Sevvanam’ helmed by actor Samuthirakani and newcomer Pooja Kannan (Sai Pallavi’s sister) intends to be a hard-hitting film on this subject, and goes hammer and tongs to drive home the pathos and injustice of it all. The girls petrified of the intrusive gaze of social media seem helpless, and find it hard to fight back. The boys use the cheapest trick in the book in the era of mobile phones and social media – clandestinely take photographs and videos of girls and terrorise them. Loosely based on the Pollachi sexual harassment and extortion case, the film revolves around the exploitation of small town girl students by boys with “powerful” fathers. ![]() ‘Chithirai Sevvanam’, a Tamil film which released on Zee5 this weekend, is a disturbing watch. Award-winning director Jane Campion's 'Power of the Dog' lands on Netflix too ![]() Abhishek Bachchan's Bob Biswas, Inside Edge season 3 and Samuthirakani's Chitthirai Sevvanam on OTT this weekend.
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