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Reflection of Social Reality in Films: A Comparative Study of the Movies --
Cooper’s Mr. Deed Goes to Town and N.S. Krishnan’s Nallathambi

Naren Kumar N L and Dr. R Subramani, Assistant Professor

Abstract

Adaptation of foreign films is not so new to Indian cinema. In particular, the Kollywood started adapting foreign films when the narratives of Tamil cinema switched to Non-Mythological Narratives manifesting the socio-cultural and political realities.

The great depression epoch is the most crucial period that the world countries have come across the post-world war scenario. There are a lot of films from the great depression wave across the globe, reflecting their social realities. There is a need of deconstructive studies on such film narratives. Mr.Deed goes to town by Frank Capra is noticed as a film reflecting the great depression after the civilian war of America. Nallathambi, a blockbuster of N.S. Krishnan, which is an adaptive work of the earlier one, is a film of the same motive. These films from almost the same epoch of the great depression but from two different countries, i.e., two different societies, reflect their social realities with their own narrative aesthetics.

This article pursues a comparative descriptive study of both the films to study the nuances of adaptation in reflecting their social realities.

Keywords: Frank Capra, Mr. Deed goes to town, N.S. Krishnan, Nallathambi, Social Reality, films, Social Culture, narratives.

1. Introduction

1.1 Societies and Social Realities

Societies are not just made with any pre planned intentions or planning. Societies are formed by people and their varied behaviour towards one another. There are various factors like tradition, culture, socio – political, economic changes and others. Social culture is nothing but the compilation of repeated narration by the society to itself. Such narrations happen to be a part and parcel of the social practices.

Reality is an assemblage of what actually exists. Social Reality can be formally defined as an assemblage of the social realm existence. As John Searle summarizes in his theory, the social sphere is not as real as the concrete, physical world, and it is somehow more dependent on people’s minds. Hence, the social reality equips a clarified study on the concern societies.

1.2 Social Realities & Films

Lenin, the Great Russian revolutionary leader in 1922 said, “Of all the arts, the cinema is for us the most important”. From its origin both as an art form and as a social practice, Films are known for their ultimate potential to impact the societies they belong to, on their socio-political and economical factors. Film being a serious art form of narration tends to reflect the social reality over decades. Many a times these films happen to be a reflection of realities of people belonging to the sphere of working class.

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Naren Kumar N L, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
Periyar University, Salem - India
narenwp97@gmail.com +91 9597218997

R Subramani, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
Periyar University, Salem - India
erasubramani@gmail.com +91 9444204387
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