{"id":754,"date":"2017-02-28T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kranjani.wordpress.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2022-11-01T03:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T03:26:10","slug":"why-do-angry-young-tamil-heroes-love-to-cross-dress-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/2017\/02\/28\/why-do-angry-young-tamil-heroes-love-to-cross-dress-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do angry young Tamil heroes love to cross-dress so much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By me. Published on February 28, 2017, The Ladies Finger<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This line of thought \u2014 an actor\u2019s credentials depending on his ability to play a woman \u2014 is a Tamil film staple, a residue of Tamil cinema\u2019s history in stage-drama. Since then, even the most riotous of heroes have worn female clothing and acted as women. What role does this play in their careers?<\/p>\n<p>More pertinently, what role does it play in our understanding of gender and sexuality?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theladiesfinger.com\/tamil-hero-drag\/\">I write for The Ladies Finger here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By me. Published on February 28, 2017, The Ladies Finger This line of thought \u2014 an actor\u2019s credentials depending on his ability to play a woman \u2014 is a Tamil film staple, a residue of Tamil cinema\u2019s history in stage-drama. Since then, even the most riotous of heroes have worn female clothing and acted as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else-i-do","category-for-the-love-of-cinema","category-selected-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}