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<p>Tamil Cinema, often synonymous with <i>masala</i> (mixture of spices) <i>movies</i>, blends multiple genres without representing any single genre distinctly and broadly focuses on depicting the film’s hero as an invincible protagonist, who rarely dies or is killed. Contemporary Kollywood has shifted from focusing on heroes with boundless physical and mental capabilities and instead draws from real-world scenarios to represent realistic plots and the mundane aspects of life with intriguing narratives. This study focuses on Madonne Ashwin’s <i>Maaveeran</i> (2023), a Tamil film that describes the life of an ordinary man, a comic artist, and his struggles for survival. His resilience is depicted through an engaging narrative that integrates the film with comics. The research aims to examine the integration of comics and film (film-comic fiction) as a narrative strategy to enhance thematic resonance and audience engagement. The objectives of the paper are to study the three comic narratives in the film and their intertwinedness with incidents in the film and the real world. Second, it examines the literary techniques incorporated into the film narrative, including metafiction, metalanguages, intertextuality, foreshadowing, breaking the fourth wall (direct address in the films), and the use of diegetic and non-diegetic elements, exploring how these contribute to the film’s theme. Third, this study also emphasises that the film narrative functions as a defence of comics and fiction, highlighting the importance of fictional representation within human society. The methodology used is the integration of metacomics and narrative theory, which analyses how medium hybridity acts as a self-reflective gesture and how multimodal elements shape and reshape story structure. The rationale for selecting the film is its distinctive narrative structure that integrates four storylines, three through comics and one through the film, with a shared titular character acting as a narrative anchor. The article concludes by suggesting that the novel narrative techniques in the film make a substantial contribution to the field of narratives that provide social commentary because this form communicates the social issues through meta-narratives, emotively engaging audiences through a new medium of representation. These innovative genres overlapping in film narratives also contribute to the research field of film theory, literary analysis, and narrative studies.</p>

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Merging of fixed frames ‘Comics’ and motion pictures ‘Films’: A Study on the Literary Narrative Techniques in the select film, Maaveeran (2023)

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    2026年7月3日

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  • P Kavimuhil,
  • G Bhuvaneswari

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Tamil Cinema, often synonymous with masala (mixture of spices) movies, blends multiple genres without representing any single genre distinctly and broadly focuses on depicting the film’s hero as an invincible protagonist, who rarely dies or is killed. Contemporary Kollywood has shifted from focusing on heroes with boundless physical and mental capabilities and instead draws from real-world scenarios to represent realistic plots and the mundane aspects of life with intriguing narratives. This study focuses on Madonne Ashwin’s Maaveeran (2023), a Tamil film that describes the life of an ordinary man, a comic artist, and his struggles for survival. His resilience is depicted through an engaging narrative that integrates the film with comics. The research aims to examine the integration of comics and film (film-comic fiction) as a narrative strategy to enhance thematic resonance and audience engagement. The objectives of the paper are to study the three comic narratives in the film and their intertwinedness with incidents in the film and the real world. Second, it examines the literary techniques incorporated into the film narrative, including metafiction, metalanguages, intertextuality, foreshadowing, breaking the fourth wall (direct address in the films), and the use of diegetic and non-diegetic elements, exploring how these contribute to the film’s theme. Third, this study also emphasises that the film narrative functions as a defence of comics and fiction, highlighting the importance of fictional representation within human society. The methodology used is the integration of metacomics and narrative theory, which analyses how medium hybridity acts as a self-reflective gesture and how multimodal elements shape and reshape story structure. The rationale for selecting the film is its distinctive narrative structure that integrates four storylines, three through comics and one through the film, with a shared titular character acting as a narrative anchor. The article concludes by suggesting that the novel narrative techniques in the film make a substantial contribution to the field of narratives that provide social commentary because this form communicates the social issues through meta-narratives, emotively engaging audiences through a new medium of representation. These innovative genres overlapping in film narratives also contribute to the research field of film theory, literary analysis, and narrative studies.