Pichaikkaran

Indian cinema’s mother fixation has been legendary, though there has been an interlude of late. However, Sasi’s latest outing, Pichaikkaran (Beggar), with Vijay Antony and Satna Titus, breaks this silence on a subject which many Western critics perceive as Oedipus complex. This may also be an over-the-top view, but Indian films have often placed the mother as a focal point of a story. We remember the oft-repeated line from Deewar, where Sashi Kapoor tells Amitabh Bachchan, “Mere paas maa hai”. And Sasi writes an entire movie that revolves around a mother. ...