Seventy-two-year-old retired police constable Gopalakrishnan stepped up. He had seen the film in theaters in 1993. He closed his eyes. Then he opened them wide, tilted his head exactly 15 degrees left, and began to walk—not normally, but in a stiff, possessed glide. He pulled an imaginary hairpin from his bun (he had no hair). He raised one hand like a snake, then clapped it down on an imaginary table. He mouthed the words, “ Oru murai vanam… ” (silently), and then laughed—a low, breathless, voiceless cackle that raised every hair on every arm in the room.
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