Venba Score Details DT Editors' Choice “Venba delivers an elegantly nuanced story about cultural identity through sharply written dialogue and meaningful cooking interludes.” Pros Cons In Venba, South Indian recipes become tasty logic puzzles as I work out missing steps from a tattered cookbook. But there’s a more complex problem at the heart of the narrative indie that’s not so easy to solve.
Economical storytelling Though Venba’s story sounds sprawling on paper, documenting its central family over four decades, its success comes in its restraint. The quiet saga unfolds over seven bite-sized chapters that give a slice-of-life look into each of its characters’ lives and their evolving relationships with one another. Though that compact structure leaves a few character beats feeling a little truncated, every second of its visual novel sequences is densely packed with detail.
The story really gets cooking in its second chapter, as we flash forward into the 90s. Now raising their young son Kavin, the couple’s anxieties only deepen. Paavalan still struggles to land full-time employment, further fueling his quiet deterioration, and Venba’s fears of losing touch with her Tamil roots become tangible in her quickly acclimating, Canada-born son.
Venba’s story shines a light on specific cultural issues Tamil people face outside of their home country. In a poignant moment, a grown-up Kavin fights with a movie producer about the way a Tamil student should be represented in a school cafeteria scene. The producer wants to show her happily eating something like “spicy vindaloo” alongside other students.
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