An open letter to Shankar for Anniyan

First of all let me thank Mr.Shankar for his extravagant and racy entertainer, which once again unleashed the laudable talent of Mr.Vikram. After watching your latest movie Anniyan, I can’t stop many questions arising out from me.

Hope Mr.Shankar might have known that creating scientific temper is the fundamental duty of the citizen in India. Already the whole country is spoiled by many superstitious beliefs; he added fuel to fire by reasserting haven, hell, and punishments in hell and of course “karuda puranam”. Has he able to prove the existence of hell or haven scientifically? Does he have any authentic evidences?
The resurgence of suffixing the caste name, by naming the hero’s name as Ramanuja Iyengar and induction of the song starts with “Iyengar veetu azhage” are the examples where Mr.Shanker is way beyond the common goal of eradicating the caste system. The practice of suffixing the caste name is been eliminated from the Tamil community after a long and lengthy struggle by leaders like Thanthai Periyar.

Instead of urging the people to avoid using the caste names, he reintroduced the given up practice. There exists relatively a hatred felling of using or addressing the caste names in the society, but when it comes to Iyer or Iyengar, it is not. I don’t understand this hypocrisy? I do strongly advocate that both the names are also caste names, and we should be ashamed of using those names.

The third fault in the movie is the extensive use of Sanskrit. Common man neglected the language and it is alien to all of us. I don’t know why Mr.Shanker hailed the language in his movie. May be he did it to show some difference, but it is unnecessary.

And of course the great blender in his movies is death penalty given by the hero. Much has been debated about death sentence in the world so I don’t want to say anything about it and it is up to him to contemplate about it.

I do accept the facts like corruption, social irresponsibility, in discipline, not performing the duty is eroding the country, but he should not forget the major problem. Yes, it is Social justice. Mr.Shanker, can you know or at least heard about what is social justice? We need to uproot the tree developed in the name of social injustice rather then weeding around the tree. We should eradicate the social injustice prevailing in every corner of the country. When are you going to worry about it Mr.Shanker? Great economist and Nobel laureates are often insisting about the importance of social justice for the growth of the country without which there is no economical or social development.

After seeing Gentleman,Indian and Mudhalvan, I really appreciated his concerns about the society, having a feel that his approach needs be streamlined. But I after seeing his Anniyan, I doubt I am wrong about him. He showcased all his views to make money rather than creating awareness.

If he really cares about the country, he should better channel his ideas in the same way what Thanthai Periyar and Dr.Ambedkar did it here? That will pay him more than what his movies collected at the box office. Your medicines will cure only the cold and cough, but the patient will soon die out of cancer Mr.Shanker.