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Deities and Devotees: Cinema, Religion, and Politics in South India

By Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda
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By Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda
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How have cinema and popular religion shaped each other? Is the display of devotion in a cinema hall the same as devotion in a temple? How do we understand cinema’s compelling power to mesmerize people? Unlike Hindi cinema, mythological and devotional films remained popular genres in Telugu (and Tamil too) until quite recently. The political success of film star N.T. Rama Rao, well-known for his portrayal of gods and kings, posed afresh the problem of cinema’s power to enthral. To what exten...

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