The Invisible Other: Caste in Tamil Cinema


The Invisible Other is a documentary film that explores the presence of caste in films and film production in Tamil cinema, especially since the 1990s.
The documentary is just a central node that is meant to connect the corollaries that are to follow in the coming weeks/months. Hence there are several lose ends in films that are intentional; it’s meant to trigger tangential questions (possibly directed towards one of the corollaries). The collection's chief purpose is to serve as a knowledge base of sorts -- if it doesn't do much towards social change, it would at least serve as an archive, I hope.

Some of the planned corollaries include:

Awareness of caste in general and within cinema - interviews from various students.

Thevar Magan's influence on the film industry, Tamil audience, politics and its legacy.

Dravidian movement's effects on caste in Tamil cinema and in public discourse.

History of Caste in Tamil Cinema

Censorship and caste

Challenges for aspiring film makers

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6 comments:

Prasad Venkat said...

Thanks.

Vijay said...

Hi suresh, I used to listen to ur podcast in Itunes, but after the shutdown of podbazzar i was not able to listen them, especially your Mahabaratham Pesukirathu episodes .
If you have them in archives or uploaded somewhere please share the link

Jay said...

Hats off Suresh, a truly daring pursuit to peel the hypocrisy of our society. worth the wait

sathyaa said...

hi suresh ....please share your facebook page link... so that we can catch you easily for your words...

sathyaa said...

Vijay... i have all Mahabaratham Pesukirathu episodes in mp3 format... if you know any free upload website there i can upload that..... engal thangam ....suresh avaragalin vimarsanam anaithum ....ennidam ullathu....

arul Sudarsanam said...

hi sathiyaa, please share the mp3 you have.. otherwise you can upload to soundcloud.com

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