Analyzing the ethnographic field data collected during the 1990s against the backdrop of a main dispute, I explore how the Buddhist monastic practice of the rain retreat has become a privileged site to construct, nurture, or contest conceptions of identity and community for monastic and lay communities in Sri Lanka. The lay communities are also expected to attend to the material requirements of the monks with diligent care and effort. During the period of retreat, the ordained monks are expected to remain in one monastery devoting time to their own educational and spiritual well-being, as well as to that of the laity around them. Though this film is released before few years it purely brings out the current exceptional activities of political system in Tamilnadu and highlighting its authoritative nature, and main objective is to study how this movie played a catalyst role towards development, believing this research could bring in detail about the social problems that are dealt in the film.Ībstract: The rain retreat is the monastic practice of retreat during the three-month rainy season (Sinhala: vas or vassana kalaya) observed throughout the Theravada Buddhist world, including Sri Lanka. It employs qualitative methodology underlying semiotics. This research brings out the satirical aspects dealt in the film through scene-by-scene analysis method. It mocks about the important loopholes that the current political system has left unsolved such as caste-clashes, emerging of foreign soft drinks in the region and the kings who support the alien countries. It describes about the rule of king where people suffer due to his activities concerning the region. Imsai Arasan 23rd Pulikecei2 (2010) is a film that happens on an imaginary region called Cholapurapalayam which is a place created on-screen to appear under British regime. As far as Tamil Cinema is concerned these could be some of the important movies which come under political satire: Muhhamad bin Tughluk (1971), Amaidhi Padai (1994), Joker (2016). Evidently, the films bring out only the fatuous characteristics of political system giving suggestions for its proper management.

Films on political satire could appear as only comical in some ways but it also points out the way our political systems are engaging in current scenario pinpointing a strong opposition towards its nature. During Hitler's regime, mocking the political system and its loopholes is evident through film made by film-maker Charlie Chaplin1 (THE GREAT DICTATOR). One of the most interesting and ever-viewed concept in cinema could be political satire.

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