In The Adamant Girl (Special Jury Prize at the Transylvania Film Festival), P.S. Vinothraj takes a critical look at caste society and the place of women in it. Meena is a 21-year-old girl who falls in love with a man of a lower caste. Her family believes that she is under a love spell and that her memory needs to be erased. A shaman, who can make her forget through various rituals such as the sacrifice of a rooster, is called upon to do this. Meena and the animal embark on a one-day journey together, a scenario that reveals them both as victims of a belief system built on misogynistic and patriarchal foundations. The Adamant Girl is a peculiar road movie, where humour and drama dialogue to narrate a story of female vindication in the face of the violence suffered by women in the name of tradition.
P.S. Vinothraj
Born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, in 1988. He dropped out of school when he wasin class IV owing to poverty. To eke out a living, he sold DVDs at a roadside shop in Chennai. During this time, he got introduced to a few people from the Tamil film industry and eventually joined as an assistant director to A. Sargunam, a Tamil filmmaker. He then worked as an assistant director for Manal Magudi, a post-modernistic theatre troupe established by Mr. Muruga Boopathy in Kovilpatti. He utilised his time during this venture to shoot a few short films. In 2021 he shot ‘Pebbles’, his feature film debut, which is inspired by his personal life and won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam International Film Festival. The film was screened at Seminci in 2023 as part of the Special Focus retrospective on Indian cinema.
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