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Validating Demons: Recasting Rāvaṇa as a Leader of the Oppressed in Mani Ratnam’s Film Version of the Rāmāyaṇa

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dc.creatorCastro, Genoveva
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T09:43:56Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T09:43:56Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on Mani Ratnam’s adaptation of the Rāmāyaṇa and analyzes the ways in which the film rewrites the epic. The movie criticizes the traditional notion of a sharp opposition between the hero and the villain: Rāma is questioned and Rāvaṇa validated. A contemporary setting is used to comment on ongoing conflicts between the police and oppressed communities. The struggle in remote and poor areas encourages the celebration of the outlaw in the form of a present-day Rāvaṇa. Gender and sexuality also play an important role in the transformation of the demonic “other” into a more sympathetic character. The vilification and resistance to the demonization of Rāvaṇa is part of a longer history in India’s literary culture which is explored and contrasted with the movie in this contribution.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.7:2021.2.3
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19550
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/259
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20746
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectValidating Demonsen
dc.subjectRecastingen
dc.subjectRāvaṇaen
dc.subjectLeaderen
dc.subjectOppresseden
dc.subjectFilmen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personMani Ratnam
dc.subject.workRAMAYANA
dc.titleValidating Demons: Recasting Rāvaṇa as a Leader of the Oppressed in Mani Ratnam’s Film Version of the Rāmāyaṇaen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-23T11:59:28
local.source.epage53
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleMedia and Religion in (Post)Colonial Societies: Dynamics of Power and Resistance
local.source.spage31
local.source.volume7
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/123946565
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174648

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