On November 23, 2022, at the UGC hall, the GCTE film club, Thycaud, showed two short films to the student teachers as a part of the "Film Festival & Best Film Critic Competition." The two short films on exhibition have English subtitles but were originally shot in Tamil. Both the Sam-directed movie "Aasai" and the Karthik Gopal movie "Tippen Box" are open-ended and have hopeful endings. Selvam, a destitute and penniless youngster who works at a grocery store to make ends meet, is the main character of "Aasai." The environment is fairly uninteresting, much like the young protagonist's colourless life.Selvan claims in his soliloquy that his supervisor treats him well at one point, one of the few times the movie touches on the societal issue of child labour. However, given that he is forced to work for a living at a very early age in the first place, the treatment offered to him by society as a whole has to be examined and challenged. As the name implies, "Aasai" is more about human wants, which could live longer than we think. Since his employment is distant from where his mother is boarded, Selvam strives to fulfil an apparently straightforward ambition of his: talking to his mother on the phone.He voluntarily loads himself with delivery tasks in order to save up the money needed to make the call. When his mother finally connected on the other end of the phone, he was able to purchase the money needed to make the call, but he was unable to have the long-desired conversation. Selvam persists despite the failure of this endeavour. For the spectators, his tenacity, bravery, and commitment to keep working hard are inspirational traits.
The protagonist of "Tippen Box," the second movie that was shown to us, is a grade 5 student from a poor home. He feels humiliated by the fact that he doesn't even have a decent tiffin box to bring to school so he may feed his peers. However, he is old enough to comprehend the horrible family circumstances that prohibit him from asking his laborer-father to purchase him a new tiffin box. He decides that the best way to handle this situation is to hurry home from school at noon so that he may eat his lunch there.He is frequently disciplined by the teacher for arriving late to class, but every time he returns to school after lunch, the afternoon session lessons have already started. Despite his repeated pleas to the instructor to reverse the penalty, he is made to physically suffer by being forced to kneel on the ground in the sweltering sun. When his English instructor once promised a tiffin box as a gift for the student who received the best score on a class test, he laboured diligently to obtain the desired present.And he "continues to run," as he says in an essay on his own desire. The movie not only shows how poor the boy's family is, but it also teaches us as instructors to be compassionate of our pupils and work to understand and resolve any issues they may have without resorting to corporal punishment for little offences.
Despite being brief, both movies were packed with intellectual and emotional depth. They stand out due to the performances performed by the young lead characters and the ways in which societal injustice and hardship are presented. A writing contest for reviews and critiques was launched after the two movies were screened.
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