I had the chance, when I was in West Bengal, India, to watch the film Maadathy - An Unfairy Tale, by the dear friend Leena Manimekalai. A subversive female gaze at patriarchy and injustice. An authentic coming of age journey of a young girl from an "unseeable" caste in a far village in Tamil Nadu state, whose forced-occupation is to wash clothes of Dalits. A poetic un-fairy tale of "all that is seen and unseen", shocking, yet empowering as one gets its bottom line, which is also its tagline; Nobodies do not have Gods. They are gods
Review of Maadathy: An Unfairy Tale
