Aruvi Movie A Treat To The Soul!

I watched it in theatre I loved it.. I have a few doubts though..

 

If anyone has a physical relationship with HIV +ve person, i thought that person will become HIV +ve.. But here it is not so in this movie..
She says that she was careful while making out with them. How can she be careful? That too when she did with one she was intoxicated and with other she was hypnotised... She was not in her senses...

 

I watched this movie and was so disgusted with the story. I literally hated myself for watching it forgoing my sleep on a Sunday night!
The movie says that the lead character is a strong lady...a girl repressed by the society....frustrated by the society ...
I all I found was a girl who was ready to take anything and everything that came her way.
She is HIV+ and none of her family members are ready to believe that she didnt do anything wrong. In an age and time where there is a test to prove anything and everything, the parents just blindly keep talking bad about her and send her out of the house.
She doesn't fight them, she doesn't try to convince them and leaves to stay with her friend. The friend's father forces himself on her...that is how it is shown. She doesnt do anything or whatever she did isn't shown.....she then goes to work in a tailor shop or such. Takes a loan from the owner for her father's heart ailment and when the family doesnt accept it, she goes on a vacation with her friend using that money?!?!?

She is then shown having affair with the business owner and the swamy in the temple....(I don't really remember the order)

Then she calmly walks into the mock setup of solvadellam unmai and tells them that she is HIV+ and that they have a risk and thereon she behaves so senselessly.....

Where did she fight the society? Holding a bunch of people from a show isn't maturity! that isn't fighting back!
Had she been really the so called fighter, she would have gone and proved her parents wrong. She would have returned the loan that she took from the business owner the minute her family rejected it! She would have cared for her friend Emily the way her friend cared for her!

I just wasted 2+ hours of my time watching this so called pathetic excuse of a film!

 

Different people have different thoughts though. I found that the movie was just beautiful! Heart-breaking yes, but a beautiful film nonetheless

 

Watched on Amazon prime, surely worth the watch, one shot dialogue she speaks about happiness in that reality show scene is way too good. The character is like a waterfall she has portrayed it so well that we started to believe she has hiv so convincing
. Bit slow movie.. Liked it in pieces and for performance of the lead .. Deserves national award ..

 

I loved everything about this movie. Here's another way to think about it - the movie isn't necessarily meant to portray perfection. In a perfect/ideal world, such things wouldn't happen. But let's be realistic, misconceptions associated with HIV and AIDS are still rampant in our society. Most ppl suffering from this condition are shunned by family and friends even though it's much more manageable these days with advances in medicine. Aruvi is placed in a vulnerable situation due to no fault of her own and her own parents refuse to stand by her but it's just symptomatic of a society they live in. She's then forced to depend on various ppl (like her friend's family, like the dodgy boss) who exploit her and take advantage of her situation. You can always argue that she could've behaved differently but then if you're a girl barely out of school thrust out into the big, bad world, do you really have many choices? And the whole hostage drama of the reality show, that to me was her trying to tell her story and at the same time, mocking what our society has become.. everyone preaches self-righteousness and morality on tv but are these ppl really practising it? I thought Lakshmi Gopalaswamy's character was brilliant and a good caricature of the many ppl we see on tv these days. The dialogue said by Aruvi about not wanting to fit in with society's norms is a real eye-opener, we all try to chase the "idea" of success as shown by others which is largely materialistic but one can still be happy without any of that.