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What Karthik Subbaraj’s Dorothy is really about

2026-10-15T15:28:45.000Z

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Dorothy places a trans woman’s desire, identity, and capacity for love at the centre of a romance, challenging decades of stereotypical representation of transgender persons in Tamil cinema.

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