Director Meera Kathiravan apprenticed with one of the finest writers of our times, the late Lohithadas. For the same reason, the Lohithadas stamps are palpable all over Aval Peyar Tamilarasi (APT henceforth) – a tale of love and redemption set in the rural backdrop of Tirunelveli, between a vagrant girl and an affluent guy. Not that we have a dearth of love stories, the treatment of the story stands apart and the mellifluous narration deserves a special mention.
The poetically shot APT unfolds leisurely, at the pace of a slow moving train and you often tend to feel like an unaccompanied passenger in a mid-afternoon train. The feeling is instantly recognizable towards the end of the movie before which the movie has more or less opened out itself making it easy for you to deduce the finale.
The vagabond singers belonging to the Tholpavai Koothu community visit a village, Kottara Mangalam, in Tirunelveli district. There is a little girl in the group who befriends the wealthy grandchild of the village headman. After their performance, when it’s time for the singing faction to leave, the wealthy grandchild coaxes his granddad to make them stay back. His wish is granted and the family is put up in a house and the girl sent to school. Their (Jai and Nandagi) friendship develops and when they reach their school final years, they are already in love.
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