Chennai, May 16 : Santosh Sivan tweet that Inam the Tamil film ( Ceylon in English) he directed will be seen soon on an OTT and an opportunity to those who missed it would be bad news to the pro- Eelam groups across the globe. Sivan tweeted -"Inam will be soon on an Ott platform for folks who want to see it.pl see the film first#its a tax free film from TN govt". Madras Cafe - Hindi film directed by Sircar and whose release in Tamil Nadu was objected by Eelam groups is currently available on Amazon Prime.
Inam was given by CBFC a U certificate and screened in TN theatres in March 2014, The timing was wrong. At that week of release, UN Human Rights body had voted for an investigation into the assault on LTTE by Lankan Army and it was the time that State was holding the Lok Sabha polls. BJP ally MDMK of Vaiko, a pro Eelam supporter , opposed the screening of the film and protests erupted. Jayalalithaa had given the film a tax free certificate as one of the producer was Lingusamy, director- producer who was close to AIADMK. Lingusamy pulled out the film and the shooting of his film Aanjaan directed by him with Suriya faced protests.
Later in 2017, Lingusamy is said to have deleted scenes that the pro- Eelam groups found objectionable. Scenes objected were -Prabhakaran, referred to only as “The Leader", is dead. Eelam propagandists hold that Prabhakaran is alive, A Buddhist monk—belonging to the majority Sinhala community—offers a pomegranate to Rajini and three other orphans as they flee for their lives. One of the characters, Nandan, finds a dead Sri Lankan soldier clutching a photograph of his daughter in his hand. In another sequence, LTTE soldiers disrupt a classroom lesson and screen propaganda videos for the students. A scroll at the end suggests a death toll far less than that claimed by Eelam supporters.
The film is a story seen through the eyes of a Lankan Tamil woman who runs an orphanage in Jaffna during the time of the crucial war. Saritha , Karunas are in the cast and Aravind Swamy has given the voice over while actor Udhayaa's wife has given voice to actor Sugandha Ram. Critics had panned the movie with The New Indian Express saying - "Inam is a pretentious piece of work, one is not exactly sure what the director wishes to convey. The film is neither entertaining nor thought provoking. There is a total lack of clarity of purpose, focus and sensitivity" Times of India wrote - Yet, somehow, Inam stops short of being a hard-hitting film. It is very reluctant to spell things out, which...makes everything a little hazy, as the context isn't firmly established...there are times when we can see Sivan leaning a little too much on his visuals to create the desired impact"
Noted critic Baradwaj Rangan review said - "Sivan is happiest when concocting near-surreal imagery that hints at mood rather than tells a story. The big scenes, on the other hand, don’t work as well. The slice-and-dice vignettes approach results in broad characters rather than complex people capable of holding together a sustained narrative. The effort to humanise them (at least cinematically) through songs doesn’t work"
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