Kalaignar's film dialogues were performed in their entirety in village dramas. From the cone speakers tied atop the palm trees, calls for caste abolition, atheism, the chorus of the working class, women's rights were heard in the voices of Sivaji Ganesan, SS Rajendran and the likes. The dialogues of Parasakthi, Manogara, Poombuhar reverberated through our village. In the 1970s, in the unelectrified village I come from, that had neither cinema hall nor newspaper, Kalaignar's film dialogues would boom from the loud speakers during temple functions and weddings. The swan is said to separate milk from the water they took the water from the milk, instead. They took from the DMK, only the idea of Tamil Nationalism, that was essential to their political fortunes. The reason being, from then till date, the positions of power in Tamil Nationalist Parties of Sri Lanka have rested with those belonging to the same caste- the Vellalars. DMK's demand for a sovereign state and later, for State autonomy, to achieve which they espoused the ideas of linguistic and Dravidian pride while also harking to the glories of the ancient Tamil kingdoms, its use of an elaborate form of Tamil in stage speeches and fiery writings were all absorbed into the politics of Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka.Īt the same time, the Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists consciously avoided the progressive politics of the DMK - abolition of caste, atheism, social justice, self-respect marriages and so on. Tamil nationalist leaders of Sri Lanka and their passionate cadres modelled their politics on that of the DMK. It was at this time that notions of Tamil nationalism and calls for a separate Eelam began to arise. In Sri Lankan Tamil households, photos of Arignar Anna (late DMK founder and Chief Minister C N Annadurai) and M Karunanidhi began to find a place. The impact of Kalaignar's words and films, along with that of the DMK, was soon felt across the sea in Sri Lanka.
At the end of the 1940s, had begun Kalaignar's fiery rise in Tamil cinema and politics.
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