The movie Raam from India: Boy kills mother?
Teenage boy, “slightly autistic,” is arrested on charges of murdering his mother and then tracks down the real killers…….
This is the plot of the 2005 movie Raam from India. The IMDB summary describes Raam (played by Jeeva, described by one source as “one of the most promising actors of Kollywood”) as ” a mentally affected child who lacks maturity considering his age” who “is also easily cut up the wrongs going around him.” The Hindu offers this summary:
The doting mother Sarada (Charanya) and her possessive son Raam (Jeeva) share a unique bond. Raam, however, gives her anxious moments with a temper that flares up and goes to dangerous levels once too often. Sarada works in the same school where Raam is studying. He is described as being slightly autistic but otherwise he is a studious school student. The scene opens with the body of Sarada and Raam lying beside each other in a pool of blood. As the policemen enter the scene Raam wakes up unhurt and alert and … the perfect pace for a thriller is set.
A photo shows Jeeva portraying Raam as holding his body stiffly, his face fixed and expressionless. I am curious as to how the actor portrays an autistic person.
Has anyone seen this movie?
3 opinions for The movie Raam from India: Boy kills mother?
mcewen
Jan 4, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Nope but I’ll be watching this space - whodunnit and autism in one film! Lucky, lucky me.
Richard
Jan 4, 2007 at 8:35 pm
No, never heard of it, but I have seen Ko Mil Gia, a Hindi singing and dancing movie that is like E.T. meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It is about an autistic boy named Rohit (the doctor tells the mother to just take him home and love him because nothing can be done). However, the word autism is never used. The mom fights to get her son an education, insisting to doubting educators that he is indeed intelligent. Then, an extraterrestrial, who looks exactly like E.T., comes to Rohit, touches him with his glowing fingertip and turns him into a clearly super intelligent math and computer whiz, buff and handsome, who wins the love of the most beautiful girl in the village.
Kristina Chew, PhD
Jan 5, 2007 at 2:37 am
If I were still teaching freshman composition, Ko Mil Gia seems as if it, and E.T., would be the basis of an interesting “compare and contrast” assignment, though I have to wonder about Richard Dreyfuss’ character’s fixations especially that scene when he sculpts the mashed potatoes…….. mcwewn, have you seen Mercury Rising—autistic child with savant number powers, Top Secret Intelligence info, murdered parents, Bruce Willis (not playing one of the parents).
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