In an interview with The Film Stage for Dheepan, co-screenwriter Noe Debré, the one that “announced” that he had met some Tamils, repeats the same, almost exact reasons, for making the creating the film.
A horned-up general named Kicaka, or Keechaka, sees Draupadhi and “as soon as he saw her, in form like a divine maiden, a walking deity, the arrows of the god of love pierced him, and he desired her.
In Dheepan, no family photos are taken in front of the Eiffel Tower with over-sized sunglasses and over-saturated film stock, like the ones against the black fences of Niagara Falls in neon jackets and shoulder pads, nor in the middle of a shopping mall (I never understood that fascination).