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

The narrow genre of devotional films in India follows a regular template – a combinationof theophanic interventions, bhakti (devotional) worship and didactic narratives.Thiruvilayadal (The Divine Play, Akkamappettai Paramasivan Nagarajan, IN 1965), afilm in Tamil (a language spoken across South and...

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Main Authors: Gopalkrishnan, Sreeram, Sreeram, Lekshmi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karl Franzens Universität Graz 2023-11-01
Series:Journal for Religion, Film and Media
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Online Access:https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubg:4-47663
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