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Old 06-11-2010, 07:04 PM   #16
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Actually, I would say MGR movies are fascist rather than pc -- the emphasis on taming women into patriarchal values, the exaggerated hero uplifting the cowering masses etc.
Taming women ellam appo jagagamungga. What I thought of PC is what I'd call, "safe". No beating up the conventions, no stirring up the emotions, no battering of rules and regulations. MGR films operate within the cultural context of that time. Taming women, at the same time, mother worshipping. All within the acceptable norms of that time. Plus you don't see bloodshed. Villains do not die, most even apologise at the end. Except for three occasions, films with MGR as the lead, does not kill the hero. It's black and white. Safe. Therefore politically correct.

Films like Ratta Kaneer, on the other hand, sought to question values of the time, criticise certain accepted norms of that time, and portrayed characters that are dark, grey and dirty, usually avoided in those "black & white" films. Ratta Kanner is as unPC as it comes, for its time, and heck, even now to some quarters. Everything I said here, are all my humble opinions
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