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The Tamil Language as More Central than Even the Gods. The Movie THIRUVILAYADAL (IN 1965) Is an Outlier as a Devotional Film

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dc.creatorGopalkrishnan, Sreeram
dc.creatorSreeram, Lekshmi
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T14:06:49Z
dc.date.available2023-11-20T14:06:49Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe narrow genre of devotional films in India follows a regular template – a combination of theophanic interventions, bhakti (devotional) worship and didactic narratives. THIRUVILAYADAL (THE DIVINE PLAY, Akkamappettai Paramasivan Nagarajan, IN 1965), a film in Tamil (a language spoken across South and East Asia by a large diaspora), was long considered a devotional movie that celebrated the God Shiva. However, a close analysis shows that the movie subverts the darshan concept (viewing) in a Hindu devotional film. Though it may appear to be a film about Puranic (mythic) Hindu gods, the subtle subtext reduces heavenly entities to supplicatory positions in relation to a cornerstone of identity in the post-independence Dravidianist Tamil State – Tamil language. This understanding of THIRUVILAYADAL is all the more relevant in light of the increasing rigidity of Hindu religious beliefs in contemporary India.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.9:2023.2.7
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/20127
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/358/316
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/21350
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
dc.subjectTamilen
dc.subjectLanguageen
dc.subjectGodsen
dc.subjectMovieen
dc.subjectOutlieren
dc.subjectDevotionalen
dc.subjectFilmen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.subject.workTHIRUVILAYADAL
dc.titleThe Tamil Language as More Central than Even the Gods. The Movie THIRUVILAYADAL (IN 1965) Is an Outlier as a Devotional Filmen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2023-11-29T00:31:30
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/358/316
local.source.epage142
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleHere Be Dragons. East Asian Film and Religion
local.source.spage127
local.source.volume9
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7785557

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