#Dorothy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Easily one of the best films of
@karthiksubbaraj. I wanted to say all these things in a video review, but my voice is down because of cold and cough, so I’m choosing text.
Spoilers ahead….
The film brilliantly captures the ugly face of male chauvinism, and the majority’s unwillingness to understand the inner feelings of a minority.
I have always liked Karthik Subbaraj’s characters. Here, Sanath — once a brash, male-chauvinistic boy — grows tender-hearted as he realises his true gender and the trauma he has carried for years.
The first indication: Subbu (Sanath), who tells Karthi (Rishi) that men shouldn’t cry, sheds tears when Karthi’s mother tells him that he will lose his mother forever. From the beginning he is in the disguise of a chauvinist , a girl at heart.
If you understand this, you can accept everything that follows in the film.
Karthi is just like us: a soft-spoken, tender-hearted boy who later hardens into a chauvinistic man, as many of us do.
In
#Dorothy (
@KeerthyOfficial), Sanath sees his own mother and his own sister — both lost to a chauvinistic family.
Keerthy is also the first person who tells Subbu that he has been living in the disguise of a chauvinist, while being a girl at heart from the start. That is why he rechristens himself Dorothy.
And what a beautiful name it is. Dorothy means “God-sent gift” — and here, she is that gift for Subbu, because she is the one who tells him to be real.
Later, in the climax, Dorothy (Sanath) becomes a God-sent gift to Karthi.
To those who say people are funded to talk about such “taboo” topics: Silappatikaram mentions pedi koothu, a dance/performance associated with trans persons. Manimekalai also refers to a cross-dressing boy among those who receive compassion.
The third gender has been there since the Sangam age.
And before I conclude:
@ilaiyaraaja is the first music composer to score a romantic track for a man who falls in love with a transgender person — and it sounds beautiful. Only he can compose and justifies such situations.
After Virumandi, I heard to a Raja’s score that just pulls your heart strings in emotional sequences, puts you to the edge of the seat and emotionally moves you to the extreme.
@DOP_Tirru the veteran just created visual magic, his visuals haunts us, makes us weep, smile, and walk out of the theatre happy!