Write a short drama script in a funny way with the characters sasirekha Lakshmana Kumara and ghatothkacha
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This dissertation is a genealogical study of the intersections between popular cinema,
popular religion and politics in South India. It proceeds with a particular focus on the
discursive field of Telugu cinema as well as religion and politics in the state of Andhra
Pradesh from roughly the 1950s to the 2000s.
Telugu cinema continued to produce mythological and devotional films based mostly on
Hindu myths and legends many decades after they ceased to be major genres in Hindi and
many other Indian languages. This was initially seen simply as an example of the
insufficiently modernized and secularized nature of the South Indian public, and of the
enduring nature of Indian religiosity. However, these films acquired an even greater
notoriety later. In 1982, N.T. Rama Rao, a film star who starred in the roles of Hindu
gods like Rama and Krishna in many mythologicals set up a political party, contested and
won elections, and became the Chief Minister of the state, all in the space of a year. For
many political and social commentators this whirlwind success could only be explained
by the power of his cinematic image as god and hero! The films thus came to be seen as
major contributing factors in the unusual and undesirable alliance between cinema,
religion and politics. This dissertation does not seek to refute the links between these
different fields; on the contrary it argues that the cinema is a highly influential and
popular cultural institution in India and as such plays a very significant role in mediating
both popular religion and politics. Hence, we need a fuller critical exploration of the
intersections and overlaps between these realms that we normally think ought to exist in
independent spheres. This dissertation contributes to such an exploration.
A central argument it makes is about the production of the figure of the citizen-devotee
through cinema and other media discourses. Through the use of this hyphenated word,
citizen-devotee, this study points to the mutual and fundamental imbrication of the two
ideas and concepts. In our times, the citizen and devotee do not and cannot exist as
independent figures but necessarily contaminate each other. On the one hand, the citizendevotee formulation indicates that the citizen ideal is always traversed by, and shot
through with other formations of subjectivity that inflect it in significant ways. On the
other hand, it points to the incontrovertible fact that in modern liberal democracies, it is
impossible to simply be a devotee (bhakta) where one‘s allegiance is only to a particular
faith or mode of being. On the contrary, willingly or unwillingly one is enmeshed in the
discourse of rights and duties, subjected to the governance of the state, the politics of
identity and the logics of majority and minority and so on. Religion as we know it today
is itself the product of an encounter with modern rationalities of power and the modern
media. Hence, the modern hybrid formation—the citizen-devotee.
The first full length study of the Telugu mythological and devotional films, this
dissertation combines a historical account of Telugu cinema with an anthropology of film
making and viewership practices. It draws on film and media theory to foreground the
specificity of these technologies and the new kind of publics they create. Anthropological
theories of religion, secularism and the formation of embodied and affective subjects are
combined with political theories of citizenship and governmentality to complicate our
understanding of the overlapping formations of film spectators, citizens and devotees.