A Study on the Postmodern Realism in Ram C/O Anandhi

A Study on the Postmodern Realism in Ram C/O Anandhi
Pratheesh Padath

Abstract

This article is an attempt to explore Akhil P. Dharmajan’s Ram C/o Anandhi as a unique convergence of cinematic realism, urban affect and wider readerly participation. The novel deviates from conventional fiction by combining spatial symbolism, narrative fragmentation and visual narration techniques to create a subdued, engrossing topography of emotion. The study investigates how cinematic syntax-such as jump cuts, frameswitching, and mise-en-scene, is translated into writing to engage readers visually and emotionally. Through rigorous textual analysis, reception studies, and interdisciplinary theoretical framing, the article reveals how Chennai develops as an emotional topography and affect becomes narrative architecture. This study situates Ram C/o Anandhi within the changing outlines of Indian postmodern literature, emphasising the novel’s connection with contemporary readers used to visual storytelling. It contends that the book initiates a spatial-emotional style of literary realism adapted to the sensory rhythms and interpretative wants of a digitally saturated audience.