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Daily Express
12-05-2025
- General
- Daily Express
Indian Chamber's gesture
Published on: Monday, May 12, 2025 Published on: Mon, May 12, 2025 Text Size: Kota Kinabalu: The Sabah Indian Chamber of Commerce (SICC) marked Mother's Day with a community outreach visit to Bethany Home in Luyang, celebrating the occasion with the home's elderly residents. Led by its President Datuk V. Jothi JP, it distributed goody bags containing daily necessities and festive treats and brought a specially decorated cake to mark the occasion. 'Today is about honouring the sacrifices, strength, and unconditional love of mothers many of whom have shaped not just families but entire communities. 'Our presence here is a humble gesture to show them they are seen, valued, and remembered,' Jothi said. Bethany Home provides care and support to elderly individuals, many of whom no longer have close family members. * Follow us on Instagram and join our Telegram and/or WhatsApp channel(s) for the latest news you don't want to miss. * Do you have access to the Daily Express e-paper and online exclusive news? Check out subscription plans available. Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express's Telegram channel. Daily Express Malaysia
New Indian Express
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New Indian Express
Nizhar Kudai Movie Review: A melodramatic assertion of toxic traditionalism
There is a notion that films that profess wholesome family values have their heart in the right place. Nizhar Kudai is the perfect example of how, sometimes, films that vouch for traditional values inadvertently show the regressive foundations of the traditional family system. The film opens with a heartwarming appeal to reduce the number of retirement homes. It is an interesting storytelling choice to make your protagonist spell out the central message of the film at the very first scene instead of the climax, the way Tamil cinema is used to. Devayani plays Jothi, a caretaker in the retirement home, who is revered and celebrated by the inmates, who, at one point, shower her with flower petals to show their adoration. After being awarded the 'Best Retirement Home' in the country, Jothi addresses the media (and the audience) to make a heartfelt appeal to reduce the number of such establishments, and for families not to abandon their elders. As preachy and unsubtle as it might be, the opening sequence, with its melodramatic appeal to save the disintegrating family system, is not the issue. Nizhar Kudai falters when it tries to find the roots of the problem it tries to throw light on, and eventually loses its way by professing questionable solutions. Niranjan and Lancy are a young couple struggling to raise their daughter while managing their stressful IT jobs. They decide to hire Jothi as a full-time babysitter. The couple is cut off from their parents because they disapproved of their interfaith marriage. Niranjan and Lancy's household, with their stressful jobs, liberal values, and materialistic inclinations, serves as a microcosm and a haphazard commentary on modern families. The film tries its best not to villainise or caricature Niranjan and Lucy, and largely tries to empathise with their lifestyle, which comes across as a nuanced writing choice. However, as the story culminates and reveals its judgmental tone towards the young couple, we realise that the nuances were just present to make them likeable, aid their supposed redemption at the end, and not to portray the complexities of contemporary marriages.
