Indonesian sailor deprived of leading part in film (6)
I believe the answer is:
avatar
'film' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'indonesian sailor deprived of leading part' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'sailor' could be 'tar' (slang term for a sailor) and 'tar' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ava' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for avatar that I've seen before include "Manifestation of a deity; cyberspace icon" , "Personal online icon" , "Descent to earth of deity in human or animal form" , "Cyberspace representation of a person" , "Figure representing a person, in a computer game say" .)