Since the pandemic of Covid-19 has created an equilibrium in the society regarding its spread among different social classes, it is high time to write about ‘Visaranai- translation is interrogation’, a movie that jolted me for a long time. The movie directed by revenge saga boss Vetrimaran kept me at a loss for quite a long due to its harsh treatment on human Psyche. The movie which was Indian submission to the Oscar in 2016 is deeply rooted in the class struggle incepted in the sub-continent by the Aryans more than 2000 years ago. How the formation of ethics and law is different for different stakeholders in society is shown with nuanced sublimity. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) passed in 1948 provided equal rights to all people but still, people are dying by Greek or Italian coastguards in the Mediterranean. So, from Aryans to the so-called elites of the 21st Century, the treatment of people in the society is still stratified. That’s where Vetrimaran s...
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