Watched this song from the movie Kaalidas. And I think it is time to retire the artistic homemaker trope. We saw it in Sethupathi and then in Theeran and now this. Firstly, why can’t you think beyond that for a homemaker. Is it to justify your over-enthusiastic art department painting on walls or you just feel that a woman should not just be a homemaker. Let her be creative, let her paint portraits on canvas and draw several feet long wall art. Even professionally trained artists would find it difficult to do all this. In Kaalidas there is a mention of her being trained in arts but the others don’t.
Kaalidas is yet another movie to make an mentally ill person, a serial killer. This one really gets under my skin. A person with no signs of mental illness is completely capable of hacking up people too. When you name a illness, you don’t understand the burden you are putting on the people who are struggling with the same illness, trying to find their place in their world. Schizoprenia is already a very difficult disease, don’t make it any more difficult because you could not come up with a solid backstory and resorted to research with Dr. google! The same thing happened in Ratchasan. Reiterating again, anybody can love, anybody can kill. A person who kills can love, a person who loves can also kill. Alienating serial killers by giving them tongue twisting illnesses can sound interesting but the guy/girl next door serial killer is even more creepy and guarantees jitters.
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