Category: Kollywood
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Kollywood’s flip side
While we are sitting here and judging a film’s aesthetic sense, there is a producer there waiting to give back his ‘Kandu Vaddi’ to the financier. Kollywood’s historical trend of suicides has just taken a new form over the last few years. Alongwith several heroines and a multitude of support actresses (‘extras’, as they are…
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Rajini, Sujatha and Existentialism
In the latest Vikatan coulmn, Sujatha writes on existentialism and Jean Paul Sartre, a popular philosopher of existentialism. He also mentions G Nagarajan’s Naalai Matrumoru Naaley as the first tamil novel based on existentialism. Incidentally, existentialism was something that I was attracted to. I have to say I was attracted to a ‘theory’. I had…
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Thalapathi !!
Shankar – “Enna Sollareenga, Rahman !!” Rahman – “Panalaam. Kandippa Pannalaam” These were the last lines overheard from Shankar and Rahman’s conversation, during the audio launch of S J Suryaa’s NEW film, Ah Aah !![Anbe Aaruyirey]. You are free to imagine/share the rest of the discussion. I hate this kind of a gossip post. But…
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Captain Teaming up !!
[Pic – Obviously India Glitz] With Rajinikanth clearing-off his political intentions, I was hoping that kollywood and politics will be dis-jointed in the near future. If only it happened, it would have been a welcoming move for the kollywood fans. We would have less of camera facing dialogues and more of story oriented scripts. Vijay…