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Jul 17, 2012, 8:30:29 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Ore Oru Gramathile'''
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+aka Once Upon a Time in a Village
+1987 138’ col Tamil
+d K. Jyothi Pandian pc Aries Enterprises
+p S. Rangarajan s/lyr Vali c Ranga m Ilaiyaraja
+lp Laxmi, Poornam Vishwanathan, Delhi
+Ganesh, Arundhati, Nizhalgal Ravi, Beena
+Chakravarthy, V.K. Ramaswamy, Senthil Charlie
+
+
+Controversial anti-government film in the
+tradition of the DMK propaganda melodrama,
+evoked e.g. in the opening cyclone scenes
+recalling Thyagabhoomi (1939). Produced in
+association with the publishers of Madras’s
+mainstream daily The Hindu, the film
+anticipates the attacks on the government’s
+positive discrimination policy in favour of
+‘scheduled’ castes, better known as Mandal
+Commission Recommendations, which helped
+bring down the Janata Dal government (1990).
+The impoverished upper-caste Brahmin
+woman Karupayi (Laxmi) masquerades as a
+low-caste Harijan in order to receive a good
+education and a good job. She is blackmailed
+by a tramp-like figure and eventually arrested
+and brought to court. As in the DMK genre, the
+trial becomes the place to expound the pros
+and cons of the policy and for the heroine to
+make her fervent plea that it is unfair to ask
+talented upper-caste people to suffer so that
+low-caste people may get decent jobs. In
+addition, the script places feminist ideas in its
+heroine’s speech to bolster its elitist message.
+The film uses several folk-music tunes as part
+of the rural drama and has a convincing
+performance by Laxmi. It was briefly banned
+but the Supreme Court eventually cleared it for
+public screening.
+
+[[Film]]