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Imayam is a 1979 Indian Tamil film, directed by Muktha Srinivasan and produced by V. Ramasamy. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Srividya, Jaiganesh and Thengai Srinivasan in lead roles. The film had musical score by M S Viswanathan.
Imayam (born 1964, pen name of V.Annamalai) is a prominent Indian novelist in Tamil. Imayam’s first novel Koveru Kazhudhaigal, translated as Beasts of Burden by Lakshmi Holmstrom into English, was hailed as a landmark in Dalit fiction.
About his novel Koveru Kazhudaigal the writer Sundara Ramasamy wrote "There is no novel that equals this one in the last 100 years of Tamil writing." However Dalit intellectuals like Raj Gauthaman have criticized the novel for focusing only on shortcomings of Dalits and being the kind of novel that "upper"-castes praised.