KD is one of the best films I've watched this year! Here's Why?
Thalaikoothal is a traditional practice in Tamil Nadu which involves administrating involuntary euthanasia to the elderly by their own family members. The film KD that recently premiered at the UK Asian Film Festival, draws on this ritual narrating the story of KD, an eighty-year-old man who runs away from home after learning of his family’s intentions to kill him. Although the premise might activate a plethora of preconceived notions regarding the plot, the narrative doesn’t delve into the complexities of this illegal but widely celebrated practice in South India. Death, when manifested in the form of a catastrophe upon unapologetic abandonment from one’s own family, invariably results in the loss of will to live. KD’s escape from his family is then, followed by a chance encounter with a ten-year-old boy Kutty. An orphan residing in the premises of a temple, Kutty is both spirited and ingenious, having every trick up his sleeve, it takes for survival. When these two contras