Love is a feeling; It seems that the lovers of the village realized that even if it is caught in all the circumstances of time, it will adapt itself and express itself without crossing the fence. Even though there were thousands of reasons to separate their love like caste, class, generational anger, goat and cow fights, that love that bloomed in the black forest like a hole hidden in a spine, like a sugarcane fodder hidden by roots and root soil, has been saving itself time after time.
There is a love that villages have buried and preserved within themselves with their own uniqueness in the lines of love from Marpphaiyan love to rejection of caste. Love blossoms between lonely old people who have lost their partners and are living their lives as fate. A love that oscillates between past love and longing for the future.
Villages that hold a drain for all the pains of time hold a drain for that unrequited love that is unspoken in due time. The love that comes after the experience blossoms and acknowledges itself in a small kiss… “You could have come and told mother”… in a kiss at most. The film ‘Karnan’ (2021) gave recognition to the silver screen and gave an epic character to the story of such a love that unfolds in old age.
Karnan (2021): The 2021 film ‘Karnan’ is set in the backdrop of a bloody true story that took place in the southern districts of the 1990s. This film was released directly in theaters during the relaxation of the curfew restrictions during the Corona 2nd wave. Dhanush played the lead role in this second film of director Mariselvaraj. The film, which shows the brutal face of the brutality that is still seen in the southern districts, is a little rough but the film, which had all the opportunities to change the track, made the weight of the film soft without passing it on to the audience.
Manjanathi (Bandarathi) Lord: Yemen (a) Emerajan. Manjanathi’s Purushan lives only through words in the film. Yeman, who is the link between Potingulam youths and the elders of the village, fell in love at that time and got married out of caste. He and Manjanathi fell in love hiding in the thorn bush, married against the caste, Manjanathi stood up to resist the housekeepers who attacked the husband, and pampered puppies to make babies to overcome her lack of children, Manjanathi turned the enslaved Yemen into a man and finally died of plague, the story that was not shown in the film, is only described in the film through a sauchatangu oppari. . Deva’s Ghanaian voice would have immortalized the love story. Aman’s life after his wife is full of loneliness and depression.
Forehead kiss is the best gift of love: Aman, who goes round the town with Karna and the piggery, needs money one day. Nothing much. Ten rupees to bet on the game, and that too for Karna… Yeman goes in search of his matini to take the money. Giving a formal speech to Madini, who is picking a thorn in the forest, and asking Ayman, who is starting to hurt, to sit next to her, Madini’s lines are the encyclopedia of old love…
“When your daughter-in-law Manchanathi left… sister, I left my husband at a young age… if he ever came looking for you, hit you and died without touching you… then everything did not come and now you have come… after all my youth has dried up, I will give it to you. What do I have now…” said Madini.
Yeman, who would untie the ten rupees from Madini’s front seat, would get up and leave after the work was done. Condemning the theft and revealing it to Naas, Madhini makes a request like this…
“Ah… Manjanathi Purusha, ten rupees is enough…”
“Candibitichuttia… I thought I didn’t know…”
“If you touch my saree I will find out…”
“It’s just.. OK, this is your ten rupees…”
“Keep those ten rupees yourself, give me a kiss if you want…” said Madini.
After that, that kiss on the forehead, when Wari hugs Madini, is a solitude beyond human feelings like lust, hostility and longing.
Love is recognition of love for others: What prompted the sister-in-law to agree to such a difficult request? No children, no manchanathi, but what made him kiss Yaman who lived in love with her?
If you really think about it, Manjanathi, who was not alive with them at that time, was the root of the love that blossomed between Yeman and his sister-in-law. It was Manjanathi’s belief that her husband would not join anyone else despite her absence, which prompted her to make such a request to her sister-in-law. That word and faith in Manjanathi made the sister listen to such a request. On the other hand, the insatiable love for Manjanathi, who thought she wanted a drain on her husband after her, manifested itself as Aeman’s kiss. It is a kiss for Manchanathi rather than a kiss for a sister-in-law… this triangular love seems to express only one thing.
That love is a feeling, not a position.
That feeling is the recognition of the love we put on others..!
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