Ragini writes Raavan… and a Rathnam masterwork..

[SPOILERS GALORE!] Not the least of Rathnam’s subversive strategies in this very singular of films is the employment of a narrative ‘machine’ which introduces non-linear ‘shards’ to upset canonical expectations. The film offers a ‘revaluation’ of the Ramayana contours not by setting up a formal anti-text but by using gaps in the orthodox versions to … Continue reading Ragini writes Raavan… and a Rathnam masterwork..