Kuthiraivaal(2022)
Bank-teller Freud wakes up one day with a horse’s tail. Convinced that it’s connected to his dreams he meets an elderly oracle who prophesizes that he’s slowly becoming a horse. When he tells his Mathematics professor of how he dreamt of a horse with no tail, he’s told it represents a forgotten woman from his past. An astrologer interprets his dream as impotence. Piecing together the puzzle, Freud is visited by the woman from his dream. She is the spirit of the Rainbow, Van Ga, who helps him reach the parallel world of his childhood through a well. To the forgotten world of a little girl, with whom he’d promised to jump into the well, grow wings and fly away, like 'Neeli' their Goddess. To this day, Neeli waits in the well. But Freud is now a 38-year-old man with a horse’s tail.
Quick Facts
- Streaming on
- Netflix
- OTT Release Date
- 1 January 2023
- Theatrical Release
- 18 March 2022
- Director
- Shyam Sundar
- Language
- Tamil
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- Rating
- 6.6/10
Storyline
A man wakes up from a strange dream to find he has grown a horse's tail. His discovery sends him on a confusing journey where he struggles to tell what is real from what is only in his mind.
“A strange dream. A horse tail. What is real?”
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Cast & Crew
Reunion Meter
Frequent partnerships reunited for Kuthiraivaal
Cast reunions in this film: Pa. Ranjit & Kalaiyarasan (5 films together).
Trivia
- The film's director, Manoj Leonel Jahson, is also a wildlife photographer and documentary filmmaker.
- The movie was shot in just 18 days, mostly in and around the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.
- Actor Shabeer Kallarakkal, who plays the lead, had to wear a prosthetic horse tail for many scenes.
- The story was inspired by a mix of ancient folklore and modern psychological theories about dreams.
- The film's budget was very low, and it was promoted heavily through social media and word-of-mouth.
- It uses minimal background music to create a more realistic and unsettling atmosphere.
- Some viewers interpreted the horse tail as a metaphor for inherited trauma or unwanted burdens.