Aryan (1988) by Priyadarshan and Mayookham (2005) directed by Hariharan are examples of this.Ĭasteist abuses and slurs are normalised along with vilification of the lower castes. This is one of the many ways in which the anti-reservation propaganda is spread, by blaming upper caste poverty on reservations.
The impoverishment of characters living in an illam (house of Namboodiri), tharavad (ancestral home of land-owners) or kottaram (palace) is also a popular storyline in most mainstream Malayalam films. Hence, the ambiguity regarding his caste could even be one of the reasons for the heroine’s aversion.Įven if the lack of lower caste representation can be set aside, there is still the larger issue of upper caste glorification and the use of offensive casteist slurs which clearly shows the prejudice in the industry. The hero, played again by Mohanal, appears till then as a man who is desperate for money and is hired to act as her husband. by the hero makes the heroine (who is of royal birth) like him although she was completely indifferent and even disliked him till then. In the film Chithram (1988), the rendition of the Carnatic song Nagumo.
Music is often placed in such a manner that the hero proves his caste or superior birth by singing.
Carnatic music vocalist TM Krishna had said that “Carnatic music is a Brahmin-dominated world.” This was backed in the film Rock n’ Roll (2007) in which a talented yet unsuccessful Christian musician says, “A non-Hindu can never be successful in the field of music in Chennai”. This is usually in the form of music, especially classical music. In some cases, rather than spelling out the caste of the hero, the makers try to put in sly references that merely imply his caste.
0 kommentar(er)
