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The Representation of Uncontested Gender in Tamil Cinema with special reference to “En Magan Magizhvan”( My son is Gay)

  • Unique Paper ID: 167600
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 3
  • PageNo: 1601-1605
  • Abstract:
  • Tamil Cinema in its course of time has created a profound effect in Indian Cine field. Tamil Cinema has dealt with various themes and brought in a positive transformation and transition in the movie it creates. There are so many Tamil films with queer characters but, En Magan Magizhvan ( My son is Gay) is the first film in Tamil to be awarded U/A in the Indian film Industry. It has received the best feature film Award at the Second Indian World Film Festival in 2018. This chapter focuses on the queerness discourse, which destabilize the statement of the heterosexual society and the Gender trouble which disorder the representation of a Gay in this conventional society. This chapter dismantles the traditional assumptions about gender and sexual norms of the society. It also describes the plight of an individual and his mother who suffer in the conservative and mainstream of the society. It suggests sexual identity is more fluid and cannot be firm and stable. It proves the words of Judith Butler who says," Gender is not the result of nature, but socially constructed". This chapter describes the Sexual identities and trauma, Sexual sensitivity, Parental affection and Cultural attachment of a Gay character, Varun and his mother from the Tamil film, En Magan Magizhvan ( My son is Gay).
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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 3
  • PageNo: 1601-1605

The Representation of Uncontested Gender in Tamil Cinema with special reference to “En Magan Magizhvan”( My son is Gay)

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