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Ethir Neechal And Mandela: Tales Of Greed And Oppression

  • Posted on April 22, 2021April 22, 2021
  • by Eswar Nagarajan
While watching Madonne Ashwin’s Mandela (2021), I felt happy to find an invisible and purely coincidental link to K. Balachander’s 1968 film Ethir Neechal
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How Rajinikanth Got His Name

  • Posted on April 12, 2021April 12, 2021
  • by Team FC
An excerpt from Aleph Book Company’s latest Rajinikanth: A Life, authored by journalist Vaasanthi
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If You Hear Vanthenda Paalkaaran Without SPB’s Voice, It Will Fall Flat: Suresh Krissna
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Director Suresh Krissna On His SPB Memories

  • Posted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
The director, who is credited with the Rajinikanth introduction song, speaks about his memories of SPB.
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From ‘Dialogue Cassettes‘ To YouTube, Five Tamil Dramas From The 80s That Are Still Relevant
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‘Dialogue Cassettes‘ To YouTube: 5 Tamil Films From The 80s

  • Posted on September 22, 2020September 23, 2020
  • by Subha J Rao
From Agni Saakshi to Achamillai Achamillai, directed by stalwarts such as K Balachander and Visu, here’s a listing of five films, first heard and then watched to travel back to simpler times
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‘KB Sir Kept Saying That This Is Not The Rajnikanth I Found’: Kavithalaya Krishnan
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Kavithalaya Krishnan On K Balachander

  • Posted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
The actor, who shared a long association with K Balachander, speaks about the director’s legacy, the lives he touched and the pool of talent he introduced to the industry.
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Sivaji Ganesan’s ‘Vietnam Veedu’ Turns 50: A Rewind To The Film, Its Time, And Its Leading Man
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Sivaji Ganesan’s ‘Vietnam Veedu’ Turns 50: A Rewind

  • Posted on April 11, 2020May 19, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
This 1970 melodrama is a great place to begin looking for Sivaji Ganesan’s transition point from an actor who elevated a scene to someone who needed to keep acting far beyond the requirements of a scene.
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A Tribute To Visu, Known For His Middle-Class Melodramas Like Samsaram Adhu Minsaram
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A Tribute To Visu, Known For Middle-Class Melodramas

  • Posted on March 23, 2020May 8, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
The Visu Character™ was a fixture in The Visu Film™. He is to families what a skilled mechanic is to a car: however bad the damage, he fixes it.
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Tamil Cinema And The Evolution Of The Romcom
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Tamil Cinema And The Evolution Of The Romcom

  • Posted on February 11, 2020May 13, 2020
  • by Ashutosh Mohan
Tamil cinema has focussed on social and economic disparities between lovers, rarely throwing the spotlight on their relationship. However, films such as Adutha Veetu Penn, Mozhi and Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi have stuck to their romcom roots.
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Kamal Haasan And Lokesh Kanagaraj: Once Upon A Time There Lived A Ghost... (Cue Theme Music By Anirudh)!
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Kamal Haasan At 65: The Forgotten Phase

  • Posted on November 7, 2019May 9, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
The ‘Great Phase’ of the actor’s career, post ‘Pushpak’ and ‘Nayakan’, is well documented. But here’s a jumble of memories from the preceding phase, the early to mid-1980s, which had just as many misses as hits.
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Telugu Cinema Of The 80s And 90s: Singeetham, RGV, Vamsy And Discovering A New Voice

  • Posted on October 29, 2018May 12, 2020
  • by Sankeertana Varma
Back to a time when technical ‘brilliance’ was used to take the audience closer to the film and not away from it
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Why You Need To Watch K Balachander’s Apoorva Raagangal

  • Posted on April 20, 2018May 15, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
To kick off our FC South Flashback series, we pick this 1975 film that starred Kamal Haasan and Srividya, and introduced superstar Rajinikanth
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