CHARACTER SKETCHES - 1
CHARACTER SKETCHES M.D.SHYAMA [Kannathil Muthamittal - 2002] Mankulam Devanathan Shyama is yet another naive woman creating an impact on the masses, crafted intricately by the maestro himself, Mani Ratnam. Born into a beautiful country that is dragged into the clutches of dirty politics, her love for her country, and her roots don't find disparity, which is evident from a scene depicting a conversation between her and her husband, listing her likes on the riverbanks, she picks up a handful of mud from the bank. She smears them on his face which screams that her patriotism has no measure. We could paint a picture of her as an unapologetic mother during the pre-interval and early post-interval sequences. That is because she made her priority of being a devoted wife and staunch towards her husband's ideologies, first. She wanted a happy family in the first place. When Dileepan (her husband), expressed his predilection of having a family only in the warless ambie