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They love her so much they have become full-on psychotic criminals. Nandhini has spent her life locked up in her house because her brothers are scared she might marry the man of her choice. Obviously this seems like the right kind of dude to be a love interest, no? Yes. When the heroine tells him that tying it around her neck will stop her brothers from beating him up, he believes her. Chinna Thambi does not know what a thaali aka marriage necklace is or what it’s for.
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He does not know how to put a bed sheet on a bed. Chinna Thambi does not walk - he puts his arms out and runs while saying ‘vroom vroom’. In this particular movie, that means he has the mental capacity of a five-year-old. Chinna Thambi is supposed to be a guy who ‘just takes a bit of time to understand things’. It’s a movie that makes you say ‘haha wait, what?’ so many times you guys like I’m not even kidding.Ĭhinna Thambi is about a wealthy young woman who falls in love with a poor, simple young man. Because if you do, you realise that Chinna Thambi is a really, really, wtf movie. This is not a movie you’re supposed to ponder. And here’s the thing - if you don’t think about it too much, it’s easy to classify this movie as ‘I enjoyed pah.’ That’s what you’re supposed to do with movies like this - you enjoy pah and then you get on with the rest of your life. Hello problematic fam! So I have just finished watching Chinna Thambi. 'Allegedly Problematic' is a monthly column by Kuzhali Manickavel, which takes a cheeky look at literary/cultural offerings from the past that would now be considered, well, problematic - and asks, 'But are they really?'. Revisiting Chinna Tambi: Every problematic trope in the 1991 Prabhu-Khushboo starrer
