01717nam a2200277   4500008004100000020001800041037003600059041001200095082001900107100002100126245002500147250000600172260004000178300000800218500080200226650005801028650005101086650004301137700002701180942000801207942000801215942000801223942000801231952018101239999001901420260110b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780143469230  cPurchasednH&C Stores,Ernakulam  aEnglish  a791.43bMUR/LA  aMurugan,Perumal   aLAND AND THE SHADOWS  a1  aHaryanabPenguin Random Housec2025  g395  aCinema, for Perumal Murugan, was never just flickering images on a screen. It was a field of experience, a gathering ground, a mirror held up to the land itself. In The Land and the Shadows, he returns to the theatres of his youth and to the decades when Tamil cinema became inseparable from the life of the people—the 1950s through the 1970s.

Here, he recalls his boyhood labour in a small-town cinema hall, the thrill of posters and projectors, the songs carried on village winds. From those vivid fragments, Murugan opens out a portrait of Tamil society in transition, where poverty and caste met desire and aspiration in the common darkness of the theatre. The screen was both escape and education, its heroes and heroines shaping speech, gesture and imagination across class and community.  aMotion pictures—Social aspects—India—Tamil Nadu  aMotion pictures—History—India—Tamil Nadu  aCinema—India—History and criticism  aGita Subramanian (tr.)  cLEN  2ddc  2ddc  2ddc  00102ddc40708NFICaMAINbMAINcGENd2026-01-08ePurchasedg799.00iTD-25-CRB-672,2026/01/02l4m2o791.43 MUR/LApE1102559r2026-08-31 12:16:20s2026-07-02w2026-01-08yLEN  c197629d197629