Author: M Chitharth

The movie is about two sisters who take up the family job as ‘Vettiyan’ after their brother dies and father gets paralysed in a freak accident. How the society treats them as ‘Vettiyal’, which is considered as ‘manly’ job is what the movie is all about.

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Chennai: After the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry released data that said the number of deaths of sanitation workers while cleaning septic tanks and sewers have risen despite the ban on manual scavenging, it created an uproar by Tamil MPs like P Chidambaram and M Kanimozhi in both Houses of Parliament recently. Unfortunately, Tamilnadu has the highest number of sewer deaths with 144 cases, followed by Gujarat with 131. In total, 620 cases were reported since 1993 of which 88 occurred in the past three years – 2017, 2018, 2019 till June. And data is from only 15 States and…

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