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KD Karuppu Durai (2019) Cast : Mu. Ramasamy, Naga Vishal Director: Madhumitha Genre : Dramedy Synopsis : Karuppu Durai, an bedridden man nearing his eighties, wakes up from his coma and runs away from home, when he learns his family has been planning to perform ancient euthanasia on him. Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Puts a smile across your face" ‌This is a humorous, uplifting take on 'thalaikoothal', an ancient form of euthanasia that placed the shameless monopoly of precious life in the hands of the very children that one nurtures. How ironic, I feel, when one's children can decide when you breathe your last, when it was you who breathed life into their very bodies? The story starts with Karuppu Durai, an ill man in his eighties, lying in a coma. The film begins with an beautiful, rustic monologue of senile innocence in the raspy, mellow voice of Karuppu Durai. But, to wake this comatose man, all it takes is a whiff of his daughter's biryani to get his engines ...

The fire that lived in my pupil That fed on the salt of my tears, The taste of solitude in my tongue  Where my flesh and limbs mattered Even when the heavens melted upon, I didn’t feel a trickle. You are the flame that scars my heart  Yet your fingers gently caress and heal You flavour my soul with thunder And bless me with fierce heat Yet, I find you resting  In the folds of a quiet ripple  You watch me slip and falter Like a music note in the air  Yet catch me before I fall. You crush and shatter me Only to stick my fragments together again, With silver dusts of courage. You whisper in silence, That my every atom was carefully picked From the cosmic dust of the Universe Inside every cell lies a stellar secret  And you leave the keys in my palms You run in the streaks that race on my palm In the sickly sweet ichor of my veins You are the gentle rhythm of my life, Just you, and me.

Like a droplet of the ocean, That embraces its joys And continues its worldly wander, This too shall pass, Time goes on, And so does life. No matter how many times your heart bled in agony, Or shattered into a million shards like glass, The ache is not to remain forever. The tears that escape your eyelids, Will not cling to your eyes forever, Learn to relish the beauty in the lack of time Be it your victory, Or your failure, And both would be forgotten in moments. Imagine a world, Where one is tired of too much bliss, And another’s tears would never run dry. Rage through it, for you can Because one day, The storm will die,  And your heart will let the sunshine  Revive your blood and veins Let your heart embrace time, As it hopes to heal your scars. You will walk through it, With valour and style, Like a phoenix that just rose from its ashes, Like a lone lioness, stroked by the breeze Hungry to lap up the fierce rays of noon. This too shall pass.