The film also shines a light on the practical difficulties refugees face. It highlights several details of how refugees cannot travel to another country as they do not have a passport and how refugees are looked upon with suspicion by the cops everywhere they go. It shows how refugees, who after experiencing great trauma, arrive at the shores of a country that they think will shelter them, only to be ill-treated there. The film showcases the pathetic and inhuman treatment meted out to refugees in Tamil Nadu. Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir gives you answers to these questions and more. Why are they looking to label him an illegal immigrant instead of giving him refugee status? Does Punithan get a passport, and does he manage to go to the UK? Moreover, the cops in Tamil Nadu are intent on labelling Punithan as an illegal immigrant and hunting him down. To go to the UK, Punithan needs a passport, and he can’t get one if he is a refugee. But that is where the real problem starts. Punithan’s music gets noticed, and he is invited to participate in the competition. Impressed by Punithan’s musical knowledge, the shopkeeper gives him a job at the store and encourages him to participate in an international music competition happening in the UK. Punithan is rescued by Malayali fishermen, who take him to a music shop owner in Kerala. ![]() Unfortunately, the boat capsizes and everybody on board except Punithan drowns. He joins a group of Sri Lankan Tamils fleeing to Australia by boat. (Supplied)Īfter years, when he is finally released, a series of unfortunate developments force him to flee the country. Also read: Daredevil Musthafa review Conflict A still from’ Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir’. Little did he know then that the priest had also died in a bombing raid. Through no fault of his, Punithan spent several years in prison, hoping that the priest would come to bail him out one day. However, just as he was about to leave the island, the Sri Lankan army shot the people escorting the boy in cold blood and threw him into a juvenile prison. Keeping in mind his extraordinary talent in music and the uncertainty caused by the war, the priest attempted to send the boy to the UK for higher studies in music. A Sri Lankan Tamil by birth, Punithan discloses that he was brought up by a church priest after his parents were killed in the ethnic cleansing that happened in Sri Lanka. It is then that Punithan narrates his story. What is even more shocking to the priest is that Jesse says she does not even know who Punithan is, let alone he being a part of her band. However, it is only after a while that they get to know that Punithan is not actually from the UK. Initially, Father Xavier and everybody in his church welcome Punithan, a fine musician, mistaking him to be a part of Jesse’s band. The story is about Kirubanadhi alias Punithan (Vijay Sethupathi), who arrives at the church of Father Xavier (the late actor Vivekh) in Kodaikanal along with a musician called Jesse (Thabiya Mathura) from the UK. Synopsis Vijay Sethupathi in ‘Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir’. Poongundranar in his works rejected the division of mankind into various categories and emphasised the universality of all humans.The film, Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir, which was in the making for several years, has finally now been released. Kaniyan Poongundrana in his poems stressed that all people should be bound by one, same moral and legal code. ![]() Kaniyan Poongundranar's Yathum oore poem means natural law will take its course just like a wood log takes its course when left in a river. Watch when PM Modi recited Tamil poet Poongundranar quote ![]() The words when translated means, "'we have a sense of belonging to every place and everyone is our own." His famous Tamil quote "Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelir" is at present depicted in the United Nations Organisation. He composed two poems in Puṟanāṉūṟu and Natrinai. He was born and brought up in Mahibalanpatti, a village panchayat in the Thiruppatur taluk of Sivaganga district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Kaniyan Poongunranar, also known as Pungundranar was an influential Tamil philosopher who lived in the Sangam age. ![]() But do you know who is Kaniyan Pungundranar? This sense of belonging beyond borders, is unique to India," PM Modi said in his UNGA speech. "3000 years ago, a great poet of India, Kaniyan Pungundranar wrote in Tamil the most ancient language of the world "Yaadhum Oore Yaavarum Kelirwhich means 'We belong to all places, and to everyone'. The quote when translated in English means 'we have a sense of belonging to every place and everyone is our own'.
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