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2.50
Offers Quick Fix Solutions But Was The Problem Understood?
Yennanga Sir Unga Sattam proposes quick fix solutions. It wants a relook at the reservation system. To be fair, the film takes a dig at every section. But everything is so black and white. The characters never feel like flesh and blood. Even an actress like Rohini doesn't make an impression. The messages are in the form of lectures to the audience. A character talks about the pros and cons of reservation to another character. The message is for the audience but within the film, what is the need for the character to be spelling all this to another character. It is as though the director wants to tell us something and so he has two characters converse or debate about it. None of this comes across as organic.(more)
Source: Bharath Vijayakumar, MovieCrow
2.00
Yennanga Sir Unga Sattam, another fallacious movie on reservations
Yennanga Sir Unga Sattam, a new-age Gentleman, is fuel to the upper caste supporters of the EWS (Economically Weaker Sections) quota. The director can deny this all he likes as he did in his press meet, but regardless, it is anti-reservation upper castes who will praise his film. His stance at this press meet for a �creamy layer� in reservation is flawed. Unlike the filmmaker, those who have dedicated their lives to dismantling caste inequalities have already extensively pointed out the inherent problems of the existing "creamy layer" system for OBCs.(more)
Source: Bharathy Singaravel , The News Minute
3.00
Bold, honest, innovative and entertaining
Though on the surface level the first half seems light the politics within the family, between the boy and the girl and the influence of caste and religion in romance is has been clearly underlined. Coming to the second half the film is very honest in taking its stand that the uplifting of the poor is what is important irrespective of which caste they belong to. (more)
Source: Review Board, IndiaGlitz.com
2.00
Too many ideologies spoil this social drama
Yennanga Sir Unga Sattam is probably among the few films to touch upon discriminations faced by a section of Brahmins who do the final rites (Soundi Brahmins). It is important documentation, sure, but to compare it with the struggles of an oppressed community feels unsettling. The comparison is apples to oranges. (more)
Source: Navein Darshan , Indian Express
2.50
An earnest but simplistic Conversation on Caste and Reservation
It is aware of the need for reservation in our society, but is also bold enough to question the abuse of such a system that has only resulted in widening the divide between the privileged and the underprivileged. Its take is not really insightful and its criticism of the shortcomings of reservation is simplistic and from the point of view of the privileged, but it's not hot-headed rhetoric either.(more)
Source: TNN, Times Of India
3.00
Watch it for the topical second half
The second half of the film is engaging and talks about the importance of the reservation to establish equality in society. He also pointed out the flaws by mentioning how a few developed lower caste folks using the reservation in the wrong way and how a few struggling upper caste folks are struggling to come up due to the same law. (more)
Source: moviebuff, Sify.com