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Being a mentor comes with its own baggage. When you take the wrong route, you are leading several others to do the same. Kathiravan aka Kathir (Vijay Sethupathi) is a local rowdy helping the counsellor in Ka Ka Po
This Vetri Maaran film about a mentor and mentee — Periyasamy aka Pettaikaaran (V. I. S. Jayapalan) is a rooster trainer and KP Karuppu (Dhanush) is his favourite student — focuses on how father-son-like relationship evolves into a complex, hateful relationship over time.
What’s super relatable about Sarvam Thaala Mayam is how most of us can never understand whether our mentors are scolding or praising us.
Rangan Vaathiyar should be considered synonymous with the term mentor — strict, righteous and someone who leads by example.
Only a few films have dealt with caste-related issues while depicting the mentor-mentee relationship. If Sarvam Thaala Mayam sees how an upper-caste man mentors someone from the marginalised community, Peranmai uncovers what happens when the tables turn around.