: ‘Dream Factory’: Desires and disappointments in a fictional of recreation of the Tamil film industry #IndiaNEWS “What happens to a dream deferred?�? opens Langston Hughes’ famous poem “Harlem�?.

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‘Dream Factory’: Desires and disappointments in a fictional of recreation of the Tamil film industry #IndiaNEWS
“What happens to a dream deferred?�? opens Langston Hughes’ famous poem “Harlem�?. Line after crystalline line, it continues by posing to the reader a series of possibilities spawned by the adjournment of a dream as questions. Dream Factory, written by Sujatha and translated from the Tamil by Madhavan Narayanan, is the story of loosely interconnected characters who are all on different levels of the food chain, that is, the world of Tamil cinema – equal parts gritty and glittery – but all the while that I read it, it struck me as one way to respond to Hughes’s earnest curiosity. Desires and dreams Each character in the novel wants something that is out of their reach, central among them Arun, who is at the height of his acting career at the young age of twenty-four, but cannot bring himself to look past his desire for a childhood friend, and soon a married woman. For the songwriter Arumairajam, a blue-collar worker of humble means, it is the dream of a songwriting career. All that the tenacious Manonmani wants is respectable work as an actor that will make up for the misfortunes of her early years. Their predicaments are of time and place, but also of their own...Read more

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