Leena Manimekalai

Review Of Madaathy: A Problematic Tamil Film On Women’s Disempowerment

Madaathy: An Unfairy Tale(NeeStream) Directed by Leena Manimekalai Rating: ** ½ This is a very disturbing film. Not only because it features two reprehensible rape sequences (one of them a gangrape of a minor) but also because the director Leena Manimekalai’s basic premise is loosely applicable to social reality. She wants us to feel a collective outrage when her free-spirited young protagonist Yosana (Ajmina Kasim) is brutalized. Of course we do. But the underlining subtext of rebellion—that Yosana will roam freely in the dark jungles in the night no mat | Click Here...