Ka Pae Ranasingam runs nearly three hours, and it earns that indulgence.
She goes to a higher authority, and when he says “It’s not my problem”, she goes to an even higher authority. She keeps hearing “It’s not my problem”, and she refuses to give up. She keeps going to people because she needs help. It’s about Ariyanachi ( Aishwarya Rajesh), who is trapped in a very difficult - and very emotional - situation. The film is a Roja -ish Satyavan/Savitri story, and it’s an impressive debut for writer-director P Virumaandi. But did he do his job as a human being? Could he not have gone the extra distance and see how else he could have helped this woman? Maybe he could have called someone and explained this situation and said: My hands are tied, but do you know what this woman can do? Because if each one of us does our “job” thinking only about what it requires of us, following rules and regulations, fearing - rightly - that we will be punished by those above us (who are only doing their job, after all) if we overstep our limits, then how do we help people who fall in a no-man’s land that’s under nobody’s purview? Put differently, if we all say “It’s not my problem”, then how do we find solutions? What if another woman turned up another day and claimed that she was the wife?Īt the heart of Ka Pae Ranasingam is an almost dharmic question: What is our duty towards other people, especially those in dire need? Seen one way, this government official did his job exactly the way the government has instructed him to do it. When she says she has none, my mind - conditioned by years of Tamil-cinema training - conjured up what would come next.
The government official asks for the relevant documents. So she goes to the government official, because she wants some kind of marriage certificate. The marriage took place in a temple, and there’s not even a photograph to prove it happened. But first, she needs to prove she’s the legal wife - and she has no proof. (He was one of the numerous anonymous Indians who worked in the numerous anonymous jobs there.) She wants the body flown back, to see him one last time and also to lay him to rest in the land he loved so much. A young woman has discovered that her Dubai-employed husband has died. I’ll begin with a scene with a government official in Ramanathapuram.
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