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Tamil Directors Round Table 2021
Posted on January 13, 2022
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krishikari
January 13, 2022
Settling in to watch this instead of working. 🙂
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Caesium
January 13, 2022
Such a such a fun-filled promo! As they say, Marana waiting.. 😁
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Yajiv
January 14, 2022
No TJ Gnanavel? 😉
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Heisenberg
January 14, 2022
Thanks for not inviting Gautam Voiceover Menon. This looks fun, candid and not pretentious
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madhusudhan194
January 14, 2022
So the full interview didn’t come out today?
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brangan
January 15, 2022
The round table is up.
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Rannjith1994
January 15, 2022
Gautam is in the actor’s roundtable.
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bart
January 15, 2022
Light and breezy session.. Feel-good, say, “kaathuvaakkula konjam cinema”
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therag
January 15, 2022
Good stuff. VP slyly shifted the conversation to you in the end and I loved that.
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Yajiv
January 16, 2022
Great roundtable. Didn’t feel the time pass at all. BR, were you surprised when the interviewer became the interviewee? 🙂
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AlterEgO (@skc89)
January 16, 2022
Super fun conversations and panel. The camaraderie between this gen directors is quite healthy. Great news for Tamil cinema.
Hope a round table happens with Telugu cinema directors with BR at helm.
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Yajiv
January 20, 2022
Baddy Boss, this is too much 😂
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