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Makale Özeti:
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At almost every historical juncture, Kalidasa’s Abhijnansakuntalam is
attempted to be adjusted to the prevailing reality. Thus, the values and traditions
conveyed through the play, instead of remaining static and fixed continue to renew
themselves according to the existing social conditions. In the present scenario, it is
technological intervention in the form of popular culture that has led to mass
circulation of the story through its adaptations in films, TV serials, music, comics,
cartoon or animation. This digitalization has changed not only the human
experience of approaching the play but also transformed it providing a new
perspective on it. The research paper intends to explore the adaptations of the play
in two forms of popular culture: comics and cartoon animation, providing insights
into alterations, deletions, transformations that have occurred in these new-age
retellings. The major emphasis of the paper is to explore that how its adaptations in
popular culture bring political and ideological angles to this aesthetic literary work.
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