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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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Miscellaneous touches : awaited masterpieces (Kaatru Veliyidai, Nenjam Marappathillai)
TRAILER : Nenjam Marappathillai, by Selvaraghavan. Darkness, craziness, freshness in tamil cinema. A baroque horror movie, like a dive into the intricacies of the eccentric Ramsay’s…
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Miscellaneous touches : remembering Kamal Haasan’s movies.
Celabrating 20 years of Avvai Shanmugi Why I love AvvaiShanmugi : among other reasons, the lady’s walking style ! Some would say that the movie…
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Frame(s) #2 : When the mother abandons her child in Mani Ratnam’s films.
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Louis Malle on the set of Thillana Mohanambal : the unreachable otherness.
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Na. Muthukumar : when poetry meets cinema
Last year, at the London Indian Film Festival, director Mani Ratnam answered the interviewer about the use of songs in indian cinema : « In a…
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Frame #1 : Avargal, K.Balachander, 1977.
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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