Sembian Mathevi’ Movie Review
In 2004, a Dalit youth was murdered in a village called Sempiyan in North Tamil Nadu. His father has been fighting for 10 years to bring to justice those responsible for the young man’s murder, who are the killers? The police have yet to find out.
Meanwhile, hero Loka Padmanabhan falls in love with heroine Amsa Rekha, younger sister of the would-be assassin. Although the heroine initially resists the hero’s love for fear of caste discrimination, at some point she trusts the hero and starts falling in love with him. To increase the intimacy between the lovers, both become physically attached to each other. Due to this, the heroine becomes pregnant. The pregnant heroine asks the hero to marry her and is at a loss as to what to do and asks her friends from her community for help. But the caste fanatics, who stop seeing the friend’s problem and think it is a drag on their society, plan to kill the friend’s girlfriend. Did the heroine escape from them? Was her love successful? ‘Champion Mathevi’ tells the truth about the background of the Dalit youth’s murder and the action of the father who came to know about it.
Loka Padmanabhan, who has written and directed the film based on true events, has made our hearts feel heavy by showing many bitter incidents that we read and pass by as newspaper reports.
Loka Padmanabhan, who has directed, produced and composed the music of the film and acted as the hero of the story, has added strength to the character by traveling as the hero of the story without showing the individuality of the hero. Although he belongs to a society that claims to be upper caste, he behaves equally with fellow human beings without any discrimination, and is upset by seeing the cruelty meted out to his girlfriend by caste fanatics and gets applause by acting emotionally.
Amsha Rekha, who plays the female lead, lacks the characteristics of a heroine, but fits the role and does the given job flawlessly. Especially in the final scene where she expresses her desire to marry and live with her lover is painful.
Jaypeem Mossakutty’s leelas are a few laughs, but a lot more frowns. But, since it is a joke, we can overlook his fakeness. People who have played other roles like Manimaran and Regina are suitable choices for the role.
Composed by Loka Padmanabhan, the songs are commercial with lyrics by Aravind, Loka Padmanabhan and V. Karuppan. The background music goes along with the story.
Cinematographer K.Raja Shekhar’s camera has captured the scenes in a simple manner, but has conveyed the feelings of the characters and their pains to the audience in an elegant way. Cinematographer Rajendra Cholan’s work also adds strength to the screenplay.
Loka Padmanabhan, who has traveled in many fields like directing, music and production, apart from acting in his first film, has boldly spoken about the caste atrocities that are still going on in some part of the country and has also recorded the politics behind it in a very compelling way. Especially in caste brutality he has recorded very strongly how the lovers and their future dreams are destroyed.
Although there are many films in Tamil cinema that talk about caste discrimination and murders, director Loka Padmanabhan, who has sought justice for the incidents without blaming anyone, has successfully done his social work through cinema as a director and producer.
MOVIE RATING :2/5.
MOVIE REVIEW BY B4U MEDIA TEAM
