Sillu Karuppatti

Piece of Palm Jaggery) is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language romantic anthology film written, directed and edited by Halitha Shameem.

The film stars Samuthirakani, Sunainaa, Manikandan K, Nivedhithaa Sathish, Kravmaga Sreeram, Leela Samson, Sara Arjun, and Rahul in the lead roles.

[1] The music and background score were composed by Pradeep Kumar, whereas cinematography for the film were handled jointly by Abhinandan Ramanujam, Manoj Paramahamsa, Vijay Kartik Kannan and Yamini Yagnamurthy.

[5] Maanja (Rahul), the teenaged ragpicker, begins to crush on Mity (Sara Arjun), a girl from a wealthy household, after stumbling upon her photo in the garbage from her home.

Soon, he begins to collect knickknacks from her garbage everyday – a seemingly broken Walkman that has a recording of her song (she is an aspiring musician) and a ring that holds emotional value.

The husband, Dhanapal (Samuthirakani) has no time for his wife, Amudhini (Sunaina) and her needs, both physical and emotional – though he does seem to be a good father to his kids.

And when Amudhini reaches the end of her tether with Dhanapal's uncaring attitude, he tries to compensate by gifting her a virtual assistant – hoping that she would leave him alone as she now has someone to speak to.

[1] In July 2017, Halitha finished working on the anthology titled Turtles, featuring Samson and Krav Maga trainer Sreeram as the leads.

[9] The anthology features Samson who plays an unmarried, independent woman, and the story traces the bond she shares with the person whom she has rented her house to.

[1] Sillu Karuppatti's soundtrack album features only one song titled "Agam Thaanai" composed by Pradeep Kumar, which has lyrics written by the director Halitha Shameem.

[16][17] Shameem says she intentionally decided to cut the teaser as a montage of scenes set to music, and no dialogue stating "This is a conversation-based film, featuring interesting interactions between strangers.

[27] S. Srivatsavan of The Hindu wrote "Halitha Shameem captures the essense [sic] of love through four shorts — each of which deals with different phases of life".

"[28] Anjana Shekar of The News Minute gave 3 out of 5 stating "The film manages to keep us engaged, while smoothly veering away from cliches.