Prison movies – Chirai (#atozapril 2013 challenge)

It is letter P for the A to Z challenge.

When i clicked on “Tossing it out” and saw P is Prison movies, I know this one was easy.  Lot of regional movies has prison in its main theme.

But the first thought when to the movie called Chirai (Prison) –  It is a Tamil regional movie of 1984,  based on the story written by a Tamil novelist Anuradha Ramanan.  Apparently, this storyline was very progressive  –  it handled a sensitive topic, where an orthodox traditional married women makes a decision which is beyond the tradition! This movie brought in the stunning logic for the then traditional society (it is still the same in many parts of the world).  When the married women gets assaulted sexually, her husband disowns her  –   now here is this lady who already is a victim and also being held responsible for being a victim!  She makes a bold decision to move into the house of the assaulter himself, who already has realized his wrong-doing  and supports her till the end and gives a very decent quality of life!  The story ends where the lady decide to live as a widow of the assaulter than her husband who deserted her !  What this movie portrayed was the biassed outlook of a society  –   which is way off from being a gender-neutral society!

In general, even today, many parts of the society look at the victim of sexual assault condescendingly  –   the victim itself is considered partly responsible for the crime – when the infamous Delhi incident happened as recently as December 2012, there were unprecedented supporting voices for women safety from every corner of the world.  At the same time, there was this view of “can one hand clap?” from some parts of the society !!

While there is lot to be said about this sensitive topic of women safety around the world, it goes without saying that we not only need stricter laws but a sweeping mindset change, where every human being is looked at as a human being than as a women or men…!

Am sure we are progressing as a society, but have still a long way before we say we arrived!  Till then – for those lovely women folks around the world –  TAKE CARE, BE BOLD & STAY SAFE!

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