

‘Blesi’ is a short about liminal racial/national identity in which my Tamil mother speaks on her experience of having children who don’t resemble or identify with her. It is a self-portrait that features my sister Yagazie as a proxy subject. The sari she wears in the film is our mother’s kurai, one of her wedding saris, and the music is an evening raga our uncle played every evening at his house in Bangsar, Malaysia.

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‘Blesi’ is a short about liminal racial/national identity in which my Tamil mother speaks on her experience of having children who don’t resemble or identify with her. It is a self-portrait that features my sister Yagazie as a proxy subject. The sari she wears in the film is our mother’s kurai, one of her wedding saris, and the music is an evening raga our uncle played every evening at his house in Bangsar, Malaysia.

Movie / 2009

Movie / 2007

Movie / 2019

Movie / 1983

Movie / 1970

Movie / 2011

Movie / 2013

Movie / 2014

Movie / 1970

Movie / 2010

Movie / 1985

Movie / 1959

Movie / 1986

Movie / 2008

Movie / 2021

Movie / 1979

Movie / 2010

Movie / 1922