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     This article presents about how the cinemas can be considered as historical sources with examples from Tamil Cinema. This study is not about history of Tamil Cinema. It’s about studying the history embedded into the content and narration presented in a Cinema. The period, which the cinema depicts, can be assessed by some images shown in that cinema. Examples: the wall poster, Name board in the market places, Dresses worn by the characters and the like. This paper, keeping this as the framework, tries to study the representation of middle classes especially Brahmin families in Tamil cinemas, which is the forte of K.Balachander, who contributed more to the Tamil cinema as a director. This also studies the various historical events and their impact through the cinemas of K.Balachander.        The authentication of historical events can be done by comparing the contemporary representations in different movies of the same period and also with the other traditional historical documents

If the Lord Rama opens a stamped envelope with Indian postal stamps and postal marks, from Sita devi, What will you think?. Yes, It happens, in the movie Sita Vanavasam (1934), Lord Rama does it that too in the wilderness. Mistakes and inaccuracies, very commonly present in the Cinemas, not been given much attention by the film makers and critics/ reviewers, is a point of concern to be stressed upon, so as to make a better presentation in cinemas. In Kovalan (1933), a Tamil film set in between third to fifth century, based on a character from the Tamil epic Silappathikarm by Ilangavadigal, one character appears with spectacles in few scenes. In Madurai Veeran (1952), based on a story on a popular folk deity, set in seventeenth century, had one scene, in which “guillotine” makes an appearance. In the dubbed in Tamil, Malayalam cinema Jesus (1973), there were four dances like modern day cabaret dances, in the palaces of Herod the great, since then the trend in the south Indian films

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