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Interview: CV Kumar, producer and Tamil pay-per-view pioneer
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vsrini
July 13, 2020
Thought I’d leave this here. It was widely hinted that the “producer” in question was CV Kumar, producer of the Tamil remake of Lucia.
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/producer-said-he-will-exchange-me-4-others-actor-sruthi-hariharan-74965
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brangan
July 14, 2020
The interview is up.
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TamilThanos
July 14, 2020
@vsrini, She says it happened 4 years after her first film. Isn’t it Kalaipuli S Thanu who remade Godhi Banna ?
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abishekspeare
July 20, 2020
If only every interview out there was this informative. Like he literally gave out numbers. Who does that in tamil cinema
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