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Interview: Vasanth Sai (About his heroine characters, from Radhika in ‘Keladi Kanmani’ to the women of ‘Sivaranjiniyum…’)
Posted on December 6, 2021
Baradwaj Rangan 
brangan
December 7, 2021
The interview is up.
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Yajiv
December 7, 2021
Interesting conversation. He has some old fashioned sentiments but also some very progressive ideas. The fact that he has been able to completely reinvent himself as a filmmaker, but without losing his unique voice, however is very cool.
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Caesium
December 8, 2021
This interview gave me a healthy dose of nostalgia, with movies from Keladi Kanmani to Rhythm. Thanks for that! 🙂
Vasanth comes across as an honest & compassionate person & film maker (in that order).
Wondering if he would be a good fit with Surya-Jothika of today, who seem to be in the same vein, just in a broader canvas (social vs. familial)
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Divya N
December 8, 2021
I really enjoyed the conversation. Women in Vasanth’s universe are complex, flawed and yet so real. I wish he makes more films.
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Rajesh Balasubramanian
December 8, 2021
Devaki Sithiyin Diary
https://www.jeyamohan.in/89190/
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TamilThanos
December 9, 2021
Really appreciate you asking about men writing women and Vasanth gave a wonderful answer as well. If you are interested, I would like to humour you with
https://www.reddit.com/r/menwritingwomen/
a subreddit filled with men writing women in all the wrong ways.
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vijay
December 9, 2021
The kind of themes and film-making style Vasanth seems to be besotted with these days may not get him an audience amongst the theater-going ‘youthu’ audience. But I think he is one example of a director who OTT can partially save. His mentor KB once said that he has started making serials more than films in the 90s, because his audience is now sitting in front of the TV. OTT is the middle ground now. If you cannot get to make feature films you dont have to have soap operas or mega serials as the only other fallback option. That way OTT can partially resurrect careers. Maybe the likes of Parthiban can target this avenue more.
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Yajiv
December 9, 2021
@Caesium: that’s an interesting thought. I think current-era Jyothika and Vasanth definitely share similar moral ideals. However, the cinematic language/pitch of their respective movies seem wildly different. Jyothika’s current era movies are so in-your-face message-y in a way that Vasanth’s aren’t. If she’s willing to fully submit to his style, I can see this working. But that’s a big IF. Same could be said about Suriya’s issue films also (not to wade into the Jai Bhim controversy again ofc 🙂).
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vijee
December 11, 2021
If you cannot read Tamil but can understand it, Bava’s narration of Devaki Sithiyin Diary —
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vijee
December 11, 2021
BR — this is something similar. Murakami’s short story adapted for the screen — lots of similar points when a good director works with great material the result is a treat for viewers.
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/07/1061188442/drive-my-car-review
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Karthik
December 12, 2021
Murakami’s short story adapted for the screen — lots of similar points when a good director works with great material the result is a treat for viewers.
Thats right. I am really looking forward to watching “Drive My Car.” Murakami’s short stories have such slow, almost soporific setups that he kind of lulls you into his characters. But then they are all so self aware and deeply self reflective, that even when things get going, so much of the action is philosophical and inside the characters. To make a movie out of that would take top notch filmmaking, and from the reviews it seems like this one does that and then some.
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