Tuesday 30 October 2012

"I love Gangamma" says Ramya

Instantly we all fell in love with her, Ramya also called as Dayamma. She is called Dayamma because she nurses Hijras who undergo castration and looks after them till they are fit and fine whether they are her chelas or not. Smile never fades away from her face. She narrates intense pain like as though it is a joke. Her slang in Tamil is really something that we found very difficult to translate. 



She was chosen to act in the play Molagapodi directed Srijith Sundaram of Kattiyakkari group. The character she was to play is a feudal land lord woman who is always angry and violent towards working class. Now our dearest Ramya is exactly opposite. She just cannot get angry nor mimic anger. She bursts into smiles the moment she is supposed to get angry. Even otherwise in life she is not a person who can get angry. So she struggled hard and one day cried in the rehearsals that she cannot do the role. All her co-actors pepped her up and gave her courage to do the role. She finally learned to get angry and play the role and then she says "I love Gangamma". Here is Dayamma for you all about her childhood.    

Thursday 25 October 2012

Maraladi - a god's sanction

Maralu is a kind of possession through god and you become god's wife. And in this process a male person with different or women's gender orientation can transition to being woman with or without surgery.


Mayamma another friend who is Maraladi gave us the interview and talked about the struggle of convincing the family and society about her being a Maraladi. She also has the powers to cure many diseases and ailments through her worship and her dedication to the god of Maralu.