![]() ![]() Endless tales invent and reinvent the legend of his magic moustache in which birds roost, which allows its owner to appear simultaneously in different places and disappear in an instant, which grows as high as the sky and as thick as rainclouds - and turn Vavachan into Moustache, a figure of mythic proportions. Afterwards, Vavachan, whose people were traditionally banned from growing facial hair, refuses to shave off his moustache. However, Vavachan's performance, and his moustache, terrify the mostly upper-caste audience, reviving in them memories of characters of Dalit power, such as Ravanan. The character appears in only two scenes and has no dialogue. ![]() Vavachan is a Pulayan who gets the opportunity to play a policeman with an immense moustache in a musical drama. "A novel of epic dimensions.easily among the most accomplished fictional works in Malayalam." (K. Winner of the JCB Prize for Literature 2020 ![]()
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