THE REIGN OF REGIONS AND THE PLIGHT OF THE MARGINALISED: POWER, PRIVILEGE, PEOPLE AND PAST IN KALKI’S PONNIYIN SELVAN

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  • Ms Smrithy Sudarsanan V, Dr Amitha P Mani Author

Abstract

Privileges play a dual role, at times it divides us apart and at times it unifies us, often bifurcating each other with the terms the privileged and the marginalized. More often than not, the discrimination that the people deprived of privileges faces, urges us to look deeper into how privilege works. The novel Ponniyin Selvan, revamped as the Pan-Indian movie, which was released in two parts in 2022 and 2023 respectively, hides a lot of unsaid stories about these privileges. The paper aims to envisage three different kinds of privileges enjoyed by the characters of the novel, Geopolitical Privilege, Privilege by birth and Privilege of gender. It also delves into the other side of the privileged section- the marginalized, to explore how these seemingly innocent privileges ruin the life of the marginalized, ignoring their very existence and shattering their hopes.

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2025-07-17

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THE REIGN OF REGIONS AND THE PLIGHT OF THE MARGINALISED: POWER, PRIVILEGE, PEOPLE AND PAST IN KALKI’S PONNIYIN SELVAN. (2025). Forum for Linguistic Studies, 1044-1049. https://acad-pubs.com/index.php/FLS/article/view/83