Posted on April 16, 2019
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Baradwaj Rangan 
Madan
April 17, 2019
Wonderful discussion on a wonderful topic. You could probably split the 70s into three eras: the early 70s when the 60s style simply carried over, the mid 70s (say around Mundru Mudichu) where you see the stories start to get more interesting and the characters exhibit shades of grey but the dialogue delivery and cinematography still resembled the earlier style of film making. And lastly the late 70s to early 80s where Bharatiraja, Mahendran and Balu Mahendra ushered in the revolution. To my untrained eyes, the cinematography of some of those films is superior to most of the films of today except maybe someone like Mysskin. And even Mysskin doesn’t use natural lighting in a romantic way which was there in these films (also in Gulzar’s Mausam). Hand in hand, a new kind of masala film which resembled its Hindi counterpart also started to make its presence felt mainly via SPM and Guru set the template for the 80s masala film. The interesting thing is the naturalism of Bharatiraja or Mahendran films rubbed off on these masala films and they had neither the garish colours of the 60s films nor the over the top dialogue delivery (though style as a factor esp in the case of Rajni came to be in the place of outright nadaga delivery). Casual finally became cool in Tamil cinema.
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Sri Prabhuram
April 17, 2019
Great video.
BTW What is your take on Kalank? I didn’t hear too many good things about it.
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vinjk
April 18, 2019
As a non-Tamizhan, I find acting in Tamil cinema to be a bit exaggerated (even in 2019). Among the current crop of actors, I find Vijay Sethupathy to be the most natural.
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Madan
April 18, 2019
Surprised that this topic hasn’t found any traction at all. Would have thought there are many fans of this era of Tamil cinema among the regular contributors here.
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TambiDude
April 19, 2019
“As a non-Tamizhan, I find acting in Tamil cinema to be a bit exaggerated (even in 2019). Among the current crop of actors, I find Vijay Sethupathy to be the most natural.”
About 10 yrs ago Kamal Hassan did mention that tamil movies can learn from the acting style in Hindi movies which has changed so much and is so natural.
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