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Podcast: The Other Banana
Episode: Director Series: Padmarajan's Deshadanakkili Karayarilla
Description: Episode Trigger Warning: Suicide
After a long break, we are back with our Director Series on Malayalam  auteur Padmarajan. This one is on his 1986 film Deshadanakkili  Karayarilla starring Shari, Karthika, Urvashi and Mohanlal.Â
Deshadanakkili  Karayarilla might be one of the popular mainstream films in the context  of any language, with big stars, but it is also one of the earliest  Indian films to talk about a lesbian relationship, confronting the world  of queer subjects and the hardships the LGBTQ+ community faces in  public and private spaces, what it means to be queer in the confines and  threat of heteronormativity and how this...