A pillar of support for Karnan, while also protecting him from the dangers of the latter's own anger. Yaman, played by an enchanting Lal, is the kindly godfather. In spite of bringing together dozens of characters, Selvaraj makes each one of them real. Karnan's biggest success is in the writing. Naturally, this story is much darker, more violent, and gut-wrenching. What would have happened if Pariyan wasn't even allowed to board a bus on the first day of his college? What if Pariyan was denied the very thing he thought of as his ticket to a dignified life? That's the story Selvaraj explores with Karnan. For Pariyan, as long as he could study, the violence is just inevitable irritation.
He silently suffers unimaginable violence, standing up for himself in controlled ways. One of my biggest concerns about Pariyerum Perumal was the submissiveness of the protagonist, Pariyan. Mari Selvaraj's sophomore film Karnan is about the village's fight for dignity against a system that's deliberately and cruelly stacked against them.įrom the much smaller and somewhat subdued effort that was his previous film Pariyerum Perumal, Selvaraj takes a giant leap with Karnan, which is more forceful - both in its message and in making. They are forced to use the bus stand in a neighbouring village, where begins the abyss of indignities meted out to them. They don't have a school, a hospital, not even a bus stand, despite having petitioned for it multiple times. Karnan is a young man waiting for a military job in a village that has no mercy from the State (oh, the spirited irony of this!).
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