Portrayal of Transgender people in Tamil Cinema

The paper is to highlight on the depiction of third gender issue in Indian Film with a special focus on Tamil films. With associate degree understanding of gradual illustration of third gender in world cinema it tries however the problem has created its road to Indian Films.. It explores various issues on problems related to third gender portrayed in the Tamil films. The Male to Female Transgender Community emerges as the most visible queer culture in India. Cinema provides viewers the ideologies and beliefs sensationally through celebrities and distorts reality. The primary objective of this study is to describe the role of Tamil Cinema on Social exclusion of MtF Transgender Community of Tamil Nadu. The study supported the face-to-face survey analysis of 416 MtF Transgender people of province. The study shows that Transgender individual‟s area unit considerably excluded from family and made to drop out from college and mostly involve in sex work and beggary for living thanks to their transgender identity. The perception of the Transgender Community clearly describes that Tamil Cinema negatively propagates and maintains the dominant ideology about Transgender people in society. The control of communication mutes the Transgender community and the unequal power relationship drives then to the multidimensional social exclusion in Tamil Nadu. Using case studies and in-depth interviews as the research methodologies, this paper will attempt to objectively study the portrayal of the third gender in Tamil cinema, and why representation of such gender/sexual minorities is important in the context of a society, especially in the current day and age.