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Quarterly Review of Film and Video Volume 41, 2024 - Issue 4
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‘Why Can’t the Son of Maadasamy Be Karnan?’: Caste, Gender, and the Rise of the Male Subaltern in Tamil Cinema

A. DivyaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4516-6763View further author information
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Pages 438-457 | Published online: 30 Nov 2022
 
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1 However, the husband of Kalyani in the film mentions that the child (Surya) born out of wedlock is due to ‘someone’s sin’ for which the then minor Kalyani is not responsible. Also, in a conversation with Selvaraj Velayutham in 2021, he insightfully mentioned that class is used to affirm caste in Thalapathi.

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A. Divya

A. Divya, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

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