Films which depict a specific community, if well portrayed, always come as a welcome relief to audiences. Director Marimuthu has made the film Thorati which talks about the lives of shepherds. How this community walks miles in search of available pasture for their sheep and goats, how they protect them in pattis (sheds) at nights and how their excreta are used as manure etc.
“It is not a documentary, it is a pucca commercial story but shot in a realistic manner,” the director claims. Having done due research into the subject, the director says, “Thorati is the long stick with a hook attached to its end which is used to pluck leaves from high tree trunks for feeding their herd. If needed, these people use them as weapons as well. And there’s a superstitious belief and unbelievable traditions behind Thorati. How a malicious group enters this simple people’s lives to create chaos forms the rest.”
While Shaman Mithru debuts as the hero in Mayan character, Sathyakala plays the heroine as Semponnu. Shaman also bankrolls the period film set in 1980s, inspired from real life incidents. The movie garnered lot of attention from commercial as well as those who make arty kind of films when it was screened for them recently.
