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Interview: Sriram and Shridhar Raghavan
Posted on May 4, 2023
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Baradwaj Rangan 
brangan
May 4, 2023
Rocky, transferring your comment here:
The interview with the Raghavan brothers is a compelling watch. Maza aa gaya !!
Watching three filmi geeks just talk and discuss cinema was pure magic.
P.S.- I remember the film festivals in Delhi being a a chance to get a glimpse of some skin. LOL
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Yajiv
May 4, 2023
“P.S.- I remember the film festivals in Delhi being a a chance to get a glimpse of some skin. LOL”
Aiyo paavam, romba kaanju poitaar manushan pola 😉
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hari prasad
May 4, 2023
There were VCR decks of bittu movies in the mid 80s…
I remember in Agni Natchathiram , VK Ramasamy and Janagaraj watch dichuku dichuku music porn
They could have bought one of those right…
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hari prasad
May 4, 2023
BTW , this interview felt more like overhearing a great conversation between three cinema lovers.
One of , if not the best interviews you ever done that didn’t feature either Mani saar or GVM.
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Anu Warrier
May 4, 2023
Loved this, BR. Sriram Raghavan is one of my favourite directors in Hindi. This was a conversation, not an interview, and I wish you would do more such. Such a pleasure.
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Rocky
May 4, 2023
Them talking about movies like Desh Premee, Deewar, Sholay and Mahaan was pure joy. Also was kind of surprised to know that even Pune used to have delayed releases. I always assumed Pune to be a big big metro town.
It was also interesting to note that the senior Raghavan keeps tabs on the number of views on the Agent Vinod songs. LOL !
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Aman Basha
May 4, 2023
This is the RRR of interviews (Rangan, Raghavan, Raghavan). I love how relaxed and happy you were to talk about typewriter ribbons, if it were a promotional interview I can visualize the beads of perspiration on your face.
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Fan of legend
May 5, 2023
Glad to see Video is sponsored by Saravana stores. Waiting for BR’s review of Legend
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Rocky
May 5, 2023
Here is the Single Take Raabta Song !!
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Karthik
May 5, 2023
Possibly the video that I enjoyed the most on your channel. Like you said maybe the fact it was a not a movie promotion and just a conversation among film geeks made it refreshing. The tangent about typewriters was my favorite portion so much so that I started looking up typewriters for sale on the internet 🙂 Please do more of these.
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therag
May 5, 2023
There is a scene in “Varumayin Niram Sivappu” where one of the three makes a hundred bucks by selling a ticket to an “art film” to a gullible customer. This happens in Delhi as well. Pre-internet days were pretty wild I guess.
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vsrini
May 5, 2023
LOL this reminds me of a story from back in the day, when my Thaatha went to watch Chemmeen with his colleague and got admonished by my Patti for watching a ‘blue film’ 🤦
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sai16vicky
May 7, 2023
Loved your observation on Victoria No. 203. I don’t know how many people remember Brij today but I am a big fan of Ek Se Badkar Ek, Bombay 405 miles and parts of Night in London. Incidentally, he also directed the Hindi remake of ‘Major Chandrakanth’: ‘Oonche Log’ before his tragic death.
ps. Victoria .. was remade in Tamil as Vairam with Jaishankar and Jayalalitha. It’s quite entertaining but no patch on the original 🙂
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Voldemort
May 7, 2023
Fantastic conversation. Felt like a fly on the wall watching three cinema nerds discussing all things cinema. The Raghavan brothers are truly one of a kind
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hari prasad
May 7, 2023
My fav so bad its really good Jaishankar cowboy movie…. was this.
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Winky Wonky
May 7, 2023
A lengthier masterclass with Siva Ananth is due, given PS2 has come out, and PS admittedly being the toughest film to make. Would be interesting to know from him how they pulled off the impossible – putting together such a huge project with an ensemble cast is a task in itself, but add to it the COVID which basically disallows everything this film needed.
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Madan
May 7, 2023
Barely minutes in and he mentions Syriana. Heart won right away. What a film it was! Back before Holly sold out to the neo-con wing of the Democrats.
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Madan
May 8, 2023
I think either of them mentioned Badal Bijlee talkies ? I have been there in its revamped budget cineplex avatar. As well as Sterling and Central Plaza in their prime, Eros when it was already in decline but still alive, New Empire etc. If Maratha Mandir is still around when I am back for annual leave, I may visit to hopefully see something other than DDLJ because it’s maybe the last 70mm surviving in Mumbai.
Single screens are dying in all the big cities and this isn’t exactly novel. But in Mumbai, the gentrification is shaping up in a way that will leave behind a glitzy and characterless CBD at BKC while the old one in Fort, accessible by local train, bus, cabs and even walk, is left to rot.
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hari prasad
May 8, 2023
In Chennai , the single screen culture is alive and kicking with theatres like Kasi , Devi , Rohini , Udhayam , Kumaran getting refurbished and people flocking to them whenever a Rajini / Vijay / Ajith movie or a movie with huge expectations like Vikram , the Ponniyin Selvan movies , Viduthalai releases despite the looming presence of multiplexes.
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Madan
May 8, 2023
hari prasad: Price controls as well as a thriving star culture have helped in Chennai. Also, the only good single screens in Mumbai were always in town. Whereas a suburban single screen complex like Udhayam was/(is?) well maintained. I even watched Kadhalukku Mariyadhai in a Tambaram theater in 98 and found it so much nicer than anything in Kalyan/Dombivli.
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Chhote Saab
May 19, 2023
Film geeks, who are very comfortable in their skins, having a great discussion of movies ….. couldn’t stop watching and wished it did not end. This is what happens when people who are passionate about something make it their profession.
Reminded me of our Milwaukee days.
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