Kavundampalayam (film)

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Kavundampalayam
Directed by Ranjith
Starring
Production
company
Shree Paasathai Movies
Release date
  • 9 August 2024 (2024-08-09)
Running time
131 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Kavundampalayam is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by Ranjith starring himself and Alfia. [1] The film had its theatrical release on 9 August 2024 as a low-profile release due to being a relatively low budgeted film with lesser known cast members. [2] The film revolves around the concept of fake dramatic romance which occurs often with the advent of a girl hailing from rich family background and high caste eloping with a boy hailing from poor low caste family background. [3]

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The film was heavily bashed by netizens for its regressive mindset about the current societal standards and norms. The film opened to extremely negative reviews from audience and critics, [4] with criticism levelled mostly on outdated out-of-fashion screenplay, dialogues, music, overall acting of crew and poor storytelling and was also criticised for showcasing biased ideology favoring towards one particular caste while degrading other castes and their rituals. The film was deemed as a box office bomb.

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Controversies

The film faced major stumbling blocks and obstacles on its way before a critical court proceeding turned out to be a moral booster in the penultimate moment. The film was initially tentatively supposed to have its theatrical release on 5 June 2024, but it was postponed due to an impending FIR and court case against the release of the film. [5] [6] Madras High Court gave a verdict by alerting the police security to give special police permission and protection to release Kavundampalayam. [7] Justice G. Jayachandran made the landmark judgement insisting the importance of providing security clearance to screen the film in across several theatres in Tamil Nadu, although the film had never developed a major hype among the audience due to less popular cast members being roped in for the production venture. [8]

The film garnered severe backlash and condemnation from general public for portraying a storytelling with a contradicting biased narrative about relationships. Critics indicated that the film preaches about caste based vengeance which could negatively impact the society as the film focuses on self glorification of a particular caste group while humiliating other caste people creating factions and divisions among public in rural areas. Actor and filmmaker Ranjith himself who is well known for advocating about caste based vengeance, openly admitted that the film is about giving a tribute to parents of girls who sacrifice their lives to protect their daughters and blatantly opines against boys hailing from low caste background marrying girls from high caste rich family background. Ranjith's narrow minded sentiments and attitudes created a stir in social media with netizens describing about the double standards and hypocrisy of Ranjith, as he himself has engaged in a fake dramatic romance by dating actress Priya Raman during the film shooting of Nesam Pudhusu and the couple got married before getting separated due to personal reasons. [9]

Critics indicated Ranjith may have thought of making a film based on caste just to get into politics and to intentionally create controversies in order to gain much needed publicity since he has largely been ignored by Kollywood industry, considering his character and backward minded personality. Ranjith in a press meet after the theatrical release of the film made a shocking remark about honor killing by justifying and supporting it as a vitally important aspect in society and Ranjith revealed it is not a violence related topic. [10] He insisted that honor killing is done by parents of children as a way of showing their dissent towards fake dramatic romance and defended the honor killing approach terming it as a parents' way of showing their care towards children. [11] [12]

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References

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  2. ↑ டிவி, தந்தி (9 August 2024). "வெளியானது 'கவுண்டம்பாளையம்' - திரைப்படம் பட்டாசு வெடித்து கொண்டாடிய ரசிகர்கள்". www.thanthitv.com (in Tamil). Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "ரஞ்சித் இயக்கி நடித்துள்ள கவுண்டம்பாளையம் படம்! வெளியானது ட்ரைலர்!". Zee Hindustan Tamil (in Tamil). 13 May 2024. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
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  8. ↑ S, Mohamed Imranullah (30 July 2024). "Provide police security for screening of Tamil movie Kavundampalayam: Madras High Court". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  9. ↑ "Priya Raman separated from husband?". The Times of India. 13 June 2014. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  10. ↑ "Ranjith faces backlash after stating that "caste based honour killing is not violence"". The Times of India. 10 August 2024. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  11. ↑ "Actor Ranjith says 'honour killing isn't violence', gets mercilessly trolled". India Today. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
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