#nithin seelan

[thozhar]

Uncomfortable with the agraharam’s actions, and mourning the death of Chinna, Narayanaswami and Uma decide to hit back at the village and avenge Chinna. They retrieve Chinna’s skull and set it aflame, giving him a fiery funeral. The fire spreads, and the entire agraharam is reduced to ashes, killing most or all of its residents. The only survivors are Narayana and Uma, looking down on the destroyed agraharam as Bharathi’s poem “Dance of Doom” is recited in the background. The blazing spark of Chinna’s death seeks to destroy the agraharam — the brahmanical society that not only killed him and his mother, but sentenced them to a life devoid of dignity simply for the crime of their birth. The compassionate Narayanaswami and Uma, while part of the oppressing castes themselves, ally themselves with a new society, one to rise from the ashes of brahmanism, and one that provides the metaphorical donkey with the humanity it deserves. Narayanaswami describes why he took in the donkey earlier in the film: a living thing came to him in need, and he could not turn it away. Not one iota of this basic morality is found in caste-ridden Hindu society, so along with Chinna and Uma, we must annihilate it.

— An Anti-Caste Analysis of John Abraham’s Agraharathil Kazhuthai