![]() While we are now tweeting and texting about the upcoming film, back then readers discussed the story sitting in thinnai (sit-outs in old Tamil households) as they played Dayakattai (Tamil dice game). To put it simply, drama, talkies, street drama, and magazines were the only modes of entertainment then.īut there’s something common between people of today and 1951 - everyone discussed Ponniyin Selvan. It would take another eight years for the first broadcast to happen and decades for TV to become a household item. Even television had not made its debut in post-independent India. The very act of scrolling this virtual screen would sound like magic in those times. ![]() Theatre was the only source of entertainment, with films in India still in a nascent stage. ![]() It would indeed be hard to imagine that era for someone who is reading this on a smartphone. He speaks to the reader and I intend to follow the same style here. Writer Kalki Krishnamurthy is fond of breaking the fourth wall, directly talking to the reader when he writes his novels.
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