What is your view on the movie "Asuran"? Does it really reflect the culture of Tamil Nadu?

 Asuran Film won National Award today.

No it was not.

Many may not be knowing, “Asuran” is a film made out of “Sahitya Academy Novel - Vekkai” by Poomani, whose works are set in karisal bhoomi or the semi-arid and rain-fed regions of southern Tamil Nadu.

It is not the first time, the region has produced Tamil writers of Magnanimous height, it stands tall and even better than Bengali literary writers.

Unfortunately, they are misunderstood and twisted for dirty Dalit politics by Vetrimaran and Dhanush. K Balachandar also put this region in ugly way for his success.

1. The novel is written 38 years ago and Film is taken in 2019. What the novel writer says that whatever has shown in the film would not have happened in 3 decades ago, forget about today.
2. Pallars have been living with dignity. Falling on one’s feet, even for respect, is not Tamil culture. Kudumbamars never do that.
3. Quote “In the film, Dhanush falls at the feet of every villager. He is also forced to carry chappals. Those are all different stories.
4. There are no panchami lands (lands reserved for Dalits) in our areas, as shown in the movie.
5. The film has retained the novel’s larger framework, but developed its own story. My friends advised me to keep quiet, because if I had said anything then, it would have embarrassed the film crew.” Unqoute
6. He quotes on The other changes made in the film “Even the cultural language of the novel has been changed. The book has sharp and short dialogues: those are missing in the film.
7. Many more characters are murdered in the film. And the film has murdered the novel.”Unquote
8. Quote “Vekkai is not a Dalit novel. It centres on the agony of a teenage boy and in my book I have not given the boy a caste identity. The idea of a Dalit identity is imported from Maharashtra.
9. On asking Then what is the way out for communities seeking to liberate themselves from the clutches of oppressors?
10. Liberation from what? There was caste even before the time of the Mahabharata. It is intricately woven into the culture of the country. It came from the temple tradition. How do you achieve liberation? By breaking statues? Don’t forget that in some places, the scheduled castes are the oppressors.
11. Vekkai, translated into English as Heat, was the first novel that the Sahitya Akademi-winning Tamil writer Poomani wrote. The heat that his book generated can be felt even now, 38 years after it was published. It was translated into English by N. Kalyan Raman last year. And a few months ago, it was made into a film, Asuran, directed by Vetrimaaran.

Poomani, 77. Three of his novels made into films.

Overall: Exaggregated and misleading.

Media is misleading youngsters of this generation. Before 1990s, everyone is poor, including so called oppressive classes. Jobs are scarce. But there was greater understanding among castes and treated with mutual respect.

Taking cues from somewhere in North India and other states, these people exaggregate and form their own hypothesis to muslead the youngsters. Unfortunately youngsters do not discuss these with their last generation.