OpinionIt's high time that Tamil cinema recognised that brother-sister relationships need to go beyond ownership and entitlement. Sowmya RajendranSivaji Ganesan and Savitri's 1961 film Pasamalar is perhaps the most well-known Tamil film on the brother-sister relationship, followed by Rajinikanth and Shoba's 1978 film Mullum Malarum. In both films, the brother and sister share a deep bond that is shaken by the entry of another man — the sister's lover/husband. It is the same template that Siva's Annaatthe, starring Rajinikanth, Keerthy Suresh, Nayanthara, and a host of other stars, sticks to in the year 2021. Except that unlike the first two films, where the directors put considerable effort into building the bond between the siblings, Annaatthe does a lazy cut-copy-paste job, making it a terribly regressive film that disguises toxic familial relationships as 'love'. One can argue that it is futile to expect better from Siva whose films thrive on amplifying sentiment with...