Iruvar Transforming History into Commodity

'Iruvar' : Transforming History into Commodity Venkatesh Chakravarthy MSS Pandian Like his earlier two films, 'Roja' and ' Bombay', Manirathnam's 'Iruvar' is another attempt to commercialise and commodify history. The film sets out to subsume and tame the Dravidian Movement's politics beyond recognition. This ideological project of the film has been largely missed.