Upon seeing the two , Varuni ¶s father, Punchibanda, remarks, ³I thought we had only one Tamil child. If we also had a pottu we can all go to Jaffna. ´ Although the film may have reduced the pottu to the status of an ornament, the larg er point is that Tamil and Sinhala are contiguous identities, if all one needs is a pottu to mov eWeb