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Posted on March 1, 2021
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Raghav
March 1, 2021
Fantastic achivement! Have followed the YouTube channel since it’s inception!
Keep up the good work team FC South.
Also for the readers, here’s the link of my Podcast on Movies & Music: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GRaxozf6KK0Y3KA2SSw98?si=in3N5JGpRv2MInqAQfzXug&utm_source=copy-link
Do give it a hear and for all cinephiles it should be an enjoyable experience 👍
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H. Prasanna
March 1, 2021
Congrats BR and team! My favorite is Vishal Menon. I really like Hriday Ranjan’s work (I remember his quip: “when BR called me up one day, I thought his Chennai weed dealer had gone cold. But he asked me to do reviews for Telugu movies, and here I am.”) It is an often funny, entertaining channel with lots of introspective pieces and interviews. Keep going! Great work.
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Ruminating Aesthete
March 1, 2021
Congrats BR and team! Film companion south’s dependable thoroughness and fairness feels surreal in our times.
As I had mentioned earlier in a comment: many critics do a great job in critiquing the content and style of a film, but rarely does one come across a writer (and his team) who has the facility to glean the sociopolitical forces that influence the creator.
Cinema, the foremost art form of our times, deserves an academic arm that studies and critiques it in our community. Studying the art is as important as the art itself, while one is like history the other is historiography.
Also, thanks BR for creating this wonderful milieu for your readers.
Kannan
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Madan
March 1, 2021
Congrats BR, congrats FC South team.
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Kay
March 2, 2021
Congrats BR and team.
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Vikram s
March 2, 2021
Congratulations BR and team, well played… Here’s to the next 4 🙂
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Yajiv
March 2, 2021
Congrats FC South on 4 years of quality content. I still remember the first video (of BR interviewing Vetri Maaran) that was uploaded to the channel. Here’s to many more years of fantastic content.
Also, I think a big Thank You is in order to Anupama for not pushing the team to drive up subscriber rates at the cost of…everything else
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Anu Warrier
March 2, 2021
Congrats BR. Here’s to many more milestones!
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Naren
March 2, 2021
Congratulations BR and everyone else on the team. Here’s to keep charging forward.
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krishikari
March 4, 2021
Love FC South, but when are you going to start Film Companion North, East and West? (I bet you get comments like that a lot, but not without reason.)
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Jayram
April 21, 2021
Happy Birthday BR!
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