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producing their own versions of these epic stories in their entirety
(Ramayanam, 1932 and Srimath Mahabharatham 1936).
However, it was more common for early Tamil mythological films to
focus on particular episodes from the epics around which to base their
Figure 4.1 Tamil film songbook cover for Srimath Mahabharatham (1936).