Tourist Family - movie review
The movie starts with a sweet Srilankan Tamil family of four - Sasikumar, Simran, a young graduate son, and a cute little ten year old son, landing in Rameshwaram shores illegally due to the economic crisis in Srilanka. Sasikumar (Das) being a large hearted fellow, wins everyone's heart in a colony in Velachery where the entire family eventually ends up settling down to starts a livelihood. Their youngest son makes everyone laugh with his satire, wit and timely comedies throughout the movie.
Sasikumar and Simran transform the entire colony into a closely knit happy community by pouring love and affection on everyone and being available to everyone in their important life events - happiness and sorrow. The colony remembers its period in two parts "before tourist family" and "after tourist family". In that, the former one was a one of typical busy city life, day-to-day life chasing, their own business minding, indifferent to neighbourhood one. The latter was the closely knit happy community it transformed into. All houses in the colony now love the new Srilankan tourist family like their own.
When a police investigation team lands in the colony looking for an illegal Srilankan Tamil family, the entire colony protects the Srilankan Tamil tourist family. Overall, it's a triumph of humanity and love. Each and every scene talks to our conscience. It softly forces us to prioritise humanity and love over everything else. No wonder this movie is a silent hit.
If you don't want to read about my point of view about this movie, stop here.
SUBAM 😃
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Movies like these justify illegal immigration. They trigger deep human emotions of overwhelming love and humanity and prevents us from thinking from other perspectives. "Hey, the illegal immigrants are also human beings. They don't have any ulterior motives. They have fled from their home countries leaving their kith and kin just for livelihood. What's the problem in them surviving in our cities? Why shouldn't we be magnanimous and welcome them with open arms?"
I partly share the emotion, but I do have problem in some parts of this thought. Everyone deserves a dignified livelihood. But when it comes to national security, we can't take risks. I ask myself if I am ok with illegal tourist families from Bangladesh or Pakistan. This is absolutely not at all ok for me. We should be very cautious and let in people case by case after thorough scrutiny on their intentions. Not everyone is bad, but some are and letting them in can be costly to our democracy. The recent Indo-Pak war has brought to light that several tens of thousands of illegal immigrants have been living in this country, securing Aadhar, PAN, voter ID and what not, and have been taking our resources and jobs. And surprise surprise - they have been voting all along. In thriving democracy like ours where every vote counts, several tourist families have already been influencing the results of the elections. God save India and her legal citizens. I am sorry to say that people from other nationalities have to come through those legal channels only. This applies to my own illegal immigrant Indian citizens in the US. National security is the highest priority for any country including ours. Let's not undermine that. Movies like this do.
When I say that national security is the top priority, I say it with lot of humility and I am not being inhumane. I can imagine how sorrowful the lives of people fleeing their home countries would be. The solution to end their miseries is to urge the government to scrutinise refugees quickly and give citizenship to them quickly. We have to give fair opportunities to them in jobs once they get citizenship. Our humanity and love should start after they become citizens and absolutely so.
National security before everything else!!! That's my point.
Otherwise, this is a light hearted, well taken movie. Kudos to the director for a good entertainment movie.
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