Director Madonne Ashwin deserves immense credit for the writing. The screenplay is tight, and the dialogues are laced with sarcasm that hits the mark every time.
The story unfolds in a remote, drought-prone village called "Kilakku Moolai" (literally "The Eastern Corner"). The village is a microcosm of Indian society, ruled for decades by two dominant castes—the "Periyakollarans" (upper caste) and the "Chinna Kollarans" (lower caste). The village’s only neutral ground, and its sole source of progress, is the local barber shop run by a gentle, soft-spoken barber named (Yogi Babu), named by his late father after the famous freedom fighter because of his "silent protest" nature. mandela tamil movie