Kottukkaali - Indian Film at Berlinale 2024 | Soori, Vinothraj Interview | Sucharita Tyagi

Join Film Critic Sucharita Tyagi in conversation with the team of Kottukkaali at Berlinale 2024 as Director Vinothraj speaks about creating the world of the film, how actor Soori came on board and much more. The sound designer Suren speaks about doing the sound without a music composer. The producer Kalai speaks about the Berlinale experience.

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The Berlin International Film Festival (German: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's "Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France.

Two Indian families are planning the wedding of their daughter Meena and son Pandi. The trouble is: Meena is in love with someone else – what’s more, from a lower caste. The film opens when all is said and done, and the family’s will has left Meena cold. She has lapsed into a monumental silence. Her family can find just one logical explanation for this state of affairs: Meena must be possessed. Once exorcised, nothing can stand in the way of happiness. So the double family party rattles and creaks their way to see a vanquisher of demons. It is a dark tale that gradually unfolds on the side of the road. With all his senses and sharp wit, P.S. Vinothraj’s The Adamant Girl relentlessly retraces the steps of the families’ supposedly righteous violence towards Meena. Again and again, the film shows just how physical the natural order of things really is. Morality, superstition and misogyny are inextricably linked. Who owns whom here seems to have been a foregone conclusion since time immemorial. Only when Pandi realises that magic has no power over Meena, only over him, does the “natural order” fall apart. Folklore-free, hard-hitting and up close.