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Should Tamil cinema resurrect the dead ?
The collective anxiety created by the AI-altered Raanjhanaa is quite understandable : a production house (Eros International) using artificial intelligence to resurrect Dhanush’s character in order to…
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Frame(s) 9 : K.Balachander and ladies eyes
Just a quick visual ode to the maestro KB and these remarkable actresses… Eyes are the windows of the soul in K.Balachander’s films. That’s why…
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Frame #8 : When stairs stare at you in “Anjali”
I love Anjali for many cinephile and personal reasons. One of them is the way Mani Ratnam depicts the life of a upper middle class…
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Frame(s) #7 : Aishwarya Rajesh framed within frames
In her young career, Aishwarya Rajesh has boldly played an interesting range of characters, often depicted on the screen with frames within frames. This visual…
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Frame(s) #6 : Trees and humans in “Merku Thodarchi Malai”
Trees are important characters in Merku Thodarchi Malai. Firstly, they are used as benchmarks in the vast landscape to express the mountain people identities, to…
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2018, a year of tamil cinema
Here is a panorama of tamil cinema in 2018, not exhaustive, but only made as a tribute to my favorite films, without any will of…
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Frame(s) #5 : Love & train
Film : Thillana Mohanambal (1968) Director : AP Nagarajan Cinematography : KS Prasad Cast : Sivaji Ganesan, Padmini Film : Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) Director :…
Shakila Zamboulingame
Born in Pondicherry but living in France since childhood, I started this writing project in 2016 to analyze Tamil cinema through a diasporic point of view. I am working on a Phd in film studies and anthropology entitled “Tamil Cinema in Diaspora: Film Culture, Spectatorship, and Identities” (RiRRa21, Université of Montpellier Paul Valéry – Cesah, EHESS), about the experience of Tamil cinema in the communities of Tamil immigration and exile in France. I regularly write and give lectures on Indian cinemas, Tamil diaspora and diasporic audiences. You can read my writings here, on Instagram where I am more active, and in some publications.
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