Vedham Pudhithu
Vedham Pudhithu Tamil English New vedha 1987, starring Sathyaraj and Amala is a critically acclaimed Tamil movie, directed by Bharathiraja. Charuhasan, Saritha, Raja and Nizhalgal Ravi played supporting roles in the movie. The story and dialogue was written by Kannan.
Balu Thevar Sathyaraj and Saritha live in a village and belong to a landowning warrior caste Thevar, held lower in the Vedic caste system hierarchy than Brahmins. Balu Thevar though, is an atheist and speaks openly against the caste system, but is nevertheless tolerated by the villagers because he is generous in helping others in need. Their son, Raja, has just returned from the city having completed his education. He meets Amala, who is the daughter of a Brahmin Sastri Priest, and they fall in love. Both of their parents discover their love and Amalas father tries to marry her off to another man in a neighboring village. On the way, Amala fakes her suicide to escape the marriage, and hides in a house Nizhalgal Ravis that she happens to pass by. In the meantime, thinking that Amala is really dead, Amalas father confronts Raja and accuses him of causing her death. During the discussion, they slip and fall into the waterfall and both men die.At this point, Amalas younger brother named Sankara a play on Adi Sankaracarya, the founder of the Monistic system of Hindu Vedic Philosophy called Advaita Vedanta, who is devoutly studying the Vedas and passing through the student phase of his Brahmin life, is left an orphan. Being considered inauspicious, since his mother, father, and sister are all dead, no one from the Brahmin community wants to take care of him. He thus wanders the streets begging for food. Balu Thevar is bothered by this, and having lost his own son, he takes him home to raise him as his own son. They give up eating meat, so as not to offend the boy. However, since the boy has been eating in a lower caste home, he is rejected by his community from learning the Vedas. Sarita the wife is enraged, and promises to educate the boy instead in an English medium school. Balu Thevar makes fun of the boy telling him that it is not important to learn Vedas and worry about caste. At this point, the boy points out Balu Thevars hypocrisy, at his preference for using his
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