In these days of lockdowns and social distancing, the Swetha murder is only compounding the gloom. What has also changed is the social context. Ramachandran is a BE graduate from Thirukkuvalai. Swetha is the daughter of a bus driver in Chrompet, unlike Swathi. These are pet contradictions of filmmakers who continue to mine them for dramatic effect. That Swathi worked in Infosys – the blue chip IT major and symbol of Indian techie prowess - only added to the underprivileged, rural boy and the elite city girl narrative. That Ramkumar was dalit and Swathi was brahmin were not to be overlooked. The social background of the victim and the perpetrator that started as a matter of detail in Swathi’s case soon grew into a matter of grave importance especially in social media. Swetha the Madras Christian College student who was murdered in Tambaram on Sept 23, 2021 Now, since the story will likely die down by tomorrow, no politician may find it worthwhile to weigh in consistently. It was then a purported case of failure of law and order against a young woman in a state whose chief minister was a woman – Jayalalithaa. Opposition leader MK Stalin met with Swathi’s family. Political parties pitched in and took positions – for and against the government of the day. The heroine was proud of her man’s macho, too – he had threatened to hack her with a sickle and she found it bliss giving.Īs the police tracked down Ramkumar over a week, all the elements in the case got their due attention in the media spotlight. In “Paruthiveeran”, for instance, the macho hero could casually raid his woman’s house and declare aloud with gestures that he would hack his ladylove if she didn’t marry him because her parents opposed their match. A sickness buttressed by decades of what defines macho in Tamil movies – where the hero has the license to stalk and threaten women they “love”. The continuing story added to the drama and helped to keep the attention of the people and the media on the looming sickness in the psyche of young Tamil men. The murderer was caught after nearly a week. What probably added to the drama in 2016 was that there was a whodunit to Swathi’s murder.
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