KollywoodMix rating 4/5
Ram’s Peranbu is a realistic take on the lives of these humans in the society, who want nothing but acceptance. And what a way has he found to tell us the story of Paapa, a girl who is spastic. She is flawed, like every other human in the world, but we all tag her with the term ‘disabled.’
The term disability is literally used to call a person cannot do something. But she does things that other mere mortals cannot do, and that is making a fellow human understand the other person’s needs, become non-judgmental and more humane.
Peranbu is narrated in chapters and each one helps us understand the father-daughter relationship better. If you walk in, hoping to be bowled over by a beautiful story of bonding between a father and his daughter, Peranbu isn’t the film you’re looking for. The film takes a deep dive into the psyche of a helpless father who has just taken custody of his teenage daughter who has cerebral palsy, and how both of them come to terms with life and accept each other. This is both a coming-of-age drama and a hard-hitting tale of survival in a world where everyone’s quick to judge.
We can confidently say, Ram lives in our world because that’s how he has characterized people. You don’t have someone doing over-the-top things, and you don’t have someone who is ‘The Villain’. He paints a picture of the society on the whole, and leaves the rest to us, to identify where we stand.
One can call this film nothing short of magic, for it will make you think who is disabled, and who is normal. Is it the disabled girl, who takes us into her world, making us empathizing with her, and crafting us into better humans? Or is it the ‘normal’ us, who think she is disabled, and look at her with disgust or sympathy?
Through a film as strong as Peranbu, Ram tells us that the differently abled community don’t need our sympathy to survive. He wants us to realize that they are as normal as anyone. They have their own needs that can be achieved through love and affection between humans. Even if Peranbu does not satisfy you, it will change you as a human, will remind how gifted our lives are, which makes this a film that has to be received with Peranbu.
