![]() “How can you be a refugee in Tamil Nadu when you’re a Tamil?,” asks Suruli. They are both Tamil at heart but are immigrants living in a foreign soil when looked at from a holistic perspective. The person receiving this information is Suruli (Dhanush in a “been there, done” that performance), a well-respected gangster from Madurai who has made a gulf called Little Madurai (like how Hosur is referred to as Little England) out of an entire street in London. Murugesan narrates his ordeal of being a “stateless” person, or rather, a man without an identity. One of them is Murugesan (played by Subbaraj’s father), a Tamil from Ceylon but a refugee in Tamil Nadu, before moving to London where he works at a restaurant as a dish washer. A bittersweet moment between two characters over the idea of home paints a bigger picture of the kind of substance Karthik Subbaraj has in his hands. ![]()
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