"The silence of the society is more brutal than police brutality," said director T.J.
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Stalin said the movie made his heart heavy and announced measures to support tribespeople with access to welfare, drinking water and electricity. That's the greatest victory of this film," said the now-retired 70-year-old. "Everybody wants to know what we can do for them. Chandru, the lawyer who inspired the role played by Tamil superstar Suriya, went on to become a judge and says young Indians tell him they were ignorant of such tribal groups and the abuse they face. I wanted to say that the silence of the society is more brutal than police brutality," he told AFP. "The reason these injustices happen to people who are vulnerable is because we don't raise our voices," said director T.J. It has also been hailed as the latest movie to defy film stereotypes of lower castes as voiceless victims by dignifying their lives and portraying them as people with agency. In a vast nation of 22 official tongues, Kollywood and other minority-language producers are often overshadowed by the glitzy, Hindi Bollywood.īut Tamil legal drama "Jai Bhim", released on Amazon's streaming platform instead of cinemas, has attracted rave reviews and currently stands as the highest-rated film by all voters globally on movie database IMDb, with a score of 9.5.īased on the true story of a lawyer battling for justice for a tribal woman whose husband was accused of theft and tortured and killed in police custody, "Jai Bhim" has been praised for its unflinching portrayal of judicial violence. Many of the directors are from the Tamil film industry "Kollywood" - nicknamed after Chennai's Kodambakkam district where many studios are based - with some from the oppressed communities at the bottom of the country's rigid caste system.
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