Expressing disappointment over Sasikumar's Nandhan film struggling to recover the investment, filmmaker and politician Thankar Bachan decried the tendency of critics and activists to look away from the film.
He appreciated the film, produced and directed by Era Saravanan, that has thrown light on the present social and cultural set-up in Tamil Nadu that gatekeeps power from the grasp of Dalits. He said the film showcases this problem in Tamil society even after the constitution enshrines Dalit representation in electoral politics. Thankar Bachan wondered why even Dalit activists failed to take the film's message forward.
