A Place of No Importance

On Deepavali day, in a village in Tamil Nadu, an alcoholic threatens to kill himself in public by consuming pesticide. The villagers are titillated, his family umimpressed. Beginning with the month of Aipasi, Veena Muthuraman tells a story set in each month of the Tamil calendar. As a year unfolds, we get to know Ayyanarpatti: to the world, a small village; for the villagers, the centre of the world.