Spoilers ahead…
Every film has something (or things) going for it, but the standouts are the episodes by Krishnakumar Ramakumar, Akshay Sundher, and Thiagarajan Kumararaja.
Modern Love Chennai is easily the best thing to come out of the Tamil OTT space. This is not to say that I liked every single short in this six-episode anthology equally, and I will talk more about that later. This is about the fact that – for the first time since the anthology wave hit us – you sense a unifying aesthetic running through every single short film. Yes, every episode is adapted from the “Modern Love” series in the New York Times – but it’s not just that. It’s also the fact that all episodes are strongly centred on women. It’s also the creative vision and the low-light cinematography across the stories, and the presence of rain (like a repeating “guest role”) and the colour palette, with a shade of green that’s seen on a wall in one episode and on a young girl’s bicycle in another episode. You can see how creative producer Thiagarajan Kumararaja and his core team have pushed every single contributor: even with different directors with differing sensibilities, there’s shared DNA right through.
There’s also a lot of Ilaiyaraaja love, from the hat-tip to songs like Uravugal thodarkathai, Engengo sellum en ennangal, En iniya pon nilave, Ninaivo oru paravai… to his own new compositions and background scores for this anthology. But let’s get to that later. For the first time in an anthology, you feel that even the episode order makes sense. Usually, you could pick any of the six films and watch it first – but here, there’s a progression of moods. We start with a simple, affecting drama: Rajumurugan’s Lalagunda Bommaigal. In Episode 3, we pause for some lightheartedness in Krishnakumar Ramakumar’s Kaadhal Enbadhu Kannula Heart Irukkura Emoji. This acts as a palate cleanser, because the next three episodes are deep dramas, concluding with the emotionally and structurally dense Ninaivo Oru Paravai, by Thiagarajan Kumararaja. And for the first time, you see someone taking full advantage of the freedoms offered by the OTT space. When you know you don’t have to cater to “all audiences”, you can make exactly the films you want, with exactly the themes you want.
You can read the rest of the review here:
https://www.galatta.com/tamil/movie/review/modern-love-chennai/
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hari prasad
May 18, 2023
The K character in that Kumararaja short may refers to Anurag Kashyap and No Smoking , which cinephiles call it as Kashyap’s angsty autobiography.
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hari prasad
May 18, 2023
” I laughed out loud when a character said he likes ‘mutta puffs’, which is the name of a character in Super Deluxe. Maybe, under the radar, Thiagarajan Kumararaja is creating his own universe: TKU.”
Mutta Puffs himself makes an appearance in one of the shorts right , you can assume that he has become a youtube food vlogger post the events of Super Deluxe.
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Spandana
May 18, 2023
“They have a fight and he wants to go home and attend the marriage the next morning, but she says that that would mean she has to dress up all over again.” I feel seen. If only I got a penny for every argument with husband about making and changing plans at the drop of a hat. I don’t have a condition, but I need to plan when to wash my hair. Lol!
Wamiqa Gabbi seems to be having a great year. Good for her.
I have always been fond of Ritu Verma, has she appeared in anything outside anthologies lately?
Good to hear that an anthology series is consistent, unlike the usual 1-2 good segments buried among of mediocre to bad ones. Will definitely watch.
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Severus Snape
May 18, 2023
Loved your cameo(and the short) sir! Made me wonder if you came up with the Godard line on the set impromptu(with the instruction being “Say something that sounds pretentious”).
Fingers crossed for more such enjoyable cameos and roles!
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vijee
May 19, 2023
didn’t expect to see you in it! Was a pleasant surprise! — it sounded like you wrote your own lines…
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Prat
May 19, 2023
Waiting for a kaadhal pisaasu to appear in the comments here. That line made me ROFL. So apt!
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hari prasad
May 19, 2023
Adhu Youtube comments section pa..
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Purple Sky
May 19, 2023
What a pleasant surprise! Now that is a cameo appearance!!! And funny thing is Ritu introduced herself exactly like how I had imagined it in my head… (if I ever happen to meet you ever 😁)
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harishprakashhp
May 20, 2023
I have been lazy and probably listening to your video reviews these days then following your written one. But this written review was like a much needed hug. It reminded me of what I liked about the Chennai edition of Modern Love, and pointed me to what I didn’t notice. It was just right!
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Kaadhal pisasu
May 20, 2023
🔥🔥🔥
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hari prasad
May 20, 2023
I’m pretty sure that this ain’t Ritu Varma , but some other self confessed Baddy fan.
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Raghu Narayanan
May 20, 2023
@BR! What a lovely cameo…but it was too short…next time, ask for more screen time! 🙂
And you are worth it too…loved the way when you, start of the conversation, looked at Ritu Varma with that shock/surprise look while at the same time casually picked up the bookmark from the table and kept it on the page you were reading…quite a veteran-like performance!
And who better, that a cinephile ‘accidentally’ runs into!? But look at the irony when you try to convert a cinephile by quoting, ‘…cinema is a… fraud’ And that ‘blue sattai..’ thingy was a kicker too..!
So how much of it was your BTS contribution to the whole scene and the dialogues…?
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Prakash Alagarsamy
May 20, 2023
@ BR where is the place actually. Restaurant looked quite fancy
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brangan
May 20, 2023
Raghu Narayanan: Muah! Thanks for that comment. 🙂 The bookmark thingee was my idea. I went there with the book, and I asked the director if I could do this – and he said yes. I wish I had dubbed better though.
Prakash Alagarsamy: It’s in Gandhi Nagar. Fika. Good food. Lots of space.
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hari prasad
May 20, 2023
Is Fika budget friendly?
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SorenKierky
May 20, 2023
Kadhal Enbadhu Kannula is the weakest film of the anthology though. I get what they’re going for, but something has to feel organic right? Even the ‘filminess’ reflecting the heroine’s mindset, that too doesn’t really make it work. The filmy situations are not fun filmy, the “kamblipoochi” reference for eg. fell flat. Surprised that you felt this is one of the better ones. The other TKU references felt like forced easter eggs. And this was one of the most artificial (and I don’t mean filmy) performances from Ritu Varma as well, I generally like her.
To see how something cliched is at the hands of a capable director, TK’s film has a moment where they drench/run in rain – even though this might be entirely in her head/memory filtered through her eyes etc. – the scene in isolation is super cliched, but TK makes it really palatable with the visuals/minimal dialogue (the innocence dialogue), everything came together well to even make it work.
On the other hand, Bharatiraja’s one worked much better (which was again with its flaws but still way better) despite being wordy, and that was honestly a more absurd situation and “unrealistic” than this – but the old fashioness worked very well and the actors were in sync with the film’s grammar. That’s all that matters right?
Even Raju Murugan’s one was vastly superior, that too had lighter treatment, and it came together very well! Was quite surprised 🙂
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Aman Basha
May 21, 2023
Talking about auteurs at 80, Lord Scorsese’s new movie at Cannes is getting extraordinary reviews. Cinema is still alive, people. Wonder how much BR misses the French weather now.
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Heisenberg
May 22, 2023
I haven’t watched everything yet. But Margazhi was quite enjoyable. As you have written, a slice of life in a teen’s holiday. We don’t know if its gonna longer or not, but it just happened at the right time in her life.
Since the lead guy is named Milton, I interpreted the story as connected to of his 2 famous epics – Paradise Lost (Divorce at home and longing for happy days), Paradise regained (young love fills her day with joy again).
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Subhashri Raghavan
May 22, 2023
What is so modern about paravaikkootil mangal – just the lack of histrionics makes it modern? I find it to be the story of all antiquity – man gets what he wants and the women clamber to rearrange their lives for him and his children while not blaming him for the hurt. There has not been one mainstream director who has talked about what would happen if a married mother of two falls in love with another man- would they two meet to discuss?
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brangan
May 22, 2023
Subhashri Raghavan: hehe. That episode is a total male fantasy, no? I thought these stories existed only in Indian minds but to find this in the New York Times.. 😁
But just to clarify, the Modern Love series of essays is about love in the modern day — not really a “modern kind of love”. The title of the essay series is very misleading — because a lot of the things people write about are things we have seen / heard for ages.
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Madan
May 22, 2023
Wrote this about the soundtrack. I should say, the songs/themes released on audio.
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bart
May 22, 2023
For those willing to string out the coiled wires in our / TK’s brain based on his “Ninaivo oru paravai”:
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Bala
May 22, 2023
Watched all the episodes. My favourite is margazhi. The movie just brings to life the song ‘uravugal thodargathai, unarvugal sirukathai. orukathai endrum mudiyalaam, mudivilum ondru thodaralaam.’ The film starts with the broken relation ship of the parent, and we get a short story of the feelings of the children. I especially liked how the braces were used to represent vulnerabilities of the girl. She finally smiles freely when she finds another person who has gone through something similar.
TK’s movie was like Mulholland Drive meets Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. I need to rewatch a few times to construct my own theory.. 🙂 it was a psychedelic experience.
The rest were not bad. Jumped out of seat when i saw BR though.. 😀 😀 So, your trademark is now going to be. ‘I leave you with that thought’, is it 😀 😀
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tamil thanos
May 22, 2023
@BR, for Marghazi, I agree with your interpretation but I see it a different way. Jasmine had her mother move away from her and the fact that the mom didn’t want her after the divorce broke her. She found that lost love with music and in the guy. Even though he is leaving her in the end, the fact that he loves her is enough to keep her happy. She is not new to separation, only that this time the love is still intact post the separation.
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lakshmi
May 23, 2023
BR-Isn’t the house in Ninaivo Oru Paravai the same as the one in your short film Kalki? Just curious.
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hari prasad
May 23, 2023
While listening to that Thendral song in Modern Love Chennai , I was like , ” This song resembles something like a rejected leftover tune that Raja composed for Friends / Kannukkul Nilavu” , it felt too dated.
But , when I watched Margazhi and when this song came , it appropriately fit and didn’t sound dated since the story was set in the early 2000s and this was how Raja composed songs at that time to stay relevant amidst the wrath of the Isaipuyal.
Idk whether the director Akshay Sunder deliberately asked for a song like that or this is what really Raja composed for that situation ; which is a motivational song for a broken hearted girl that the latter often listens to on her small MP3 player.
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Madan
May 23, 2023
“While listening to that Thendral song in Modern Love Chennai , I was like , ” This song resembles something like a rejected leftover tune that Raja composed for Friends / Kannukkul Nilavu” , it felt too dated.” – Exactly what it sounded like to me.
They did a 20 min or so interview on Sun Music about the Modern Love album but it was frustratingly vague, perhaps in keeping with TK’s philosophy of not giving the answers. But I would love to have known what was the brief for these songs. Did TK say rock song or did he even specify a band/song for Sooriyan Thondrudhu? It’s getting a little boring now to hear the gushing over 15 sec la paatu kuduthar. Yeah, we know all that but HOW did these songs come about? How come they sound so different if everybody followed the usual IR album process to a T? These songs are also much better integrated with the lyrics than in some of his recent efforts, which is a big part of why they make an impact. It would have been good to hear more about that and that is not, respectfully, closing doors to other processes because we can have that same dialogue with U1, Roldan or Rahman for a different album etc and put it all out there.
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brangan
May 23, 2023
lakshmi: I don’t think so. But now that you mention it, there do seem to be similarities 🙂
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vijay
May 23, 2023
I havent watched the film or the scenes..but when i clicked on ‘kaamathu paal’ and listened to the brass-driven instrumental(reminding slightly of Mancini’s work in Pink Panther), gradually increasing in tempo and going thru different scales and ending in a crescendo, I couldnt help but think if Raja was channeling his inner mischievous self and conjuring up the musical equivalent of an intense love making session hitting the final high or ‘crescendo’. . was this piece used in the short at all somewhere? if so, would like to know how it was used..this was one of a kind. But since TK wants us to interpret and all, this is how I did when i listened to it 🙂
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Prat
May 23, 2023
Paravaigal koottil.. despite being a male fantasy story and despite not revealing what the wife’s true emotions were, was one of the strongest stories. It had some great dialogues, which have become a rarity in tamil cinema. I was surprised to learn that it was directed by bharathiraja, who hasn’t made a movie in ages (I think).
Speaking about male fantasy, Sam in Ninaivo seemed more of one. She doesn’t really have much of a backstory/aspirations etc while it’s clear that K wants to make movies. To be fair he doesn’t have much more than that fact. But Sam is just so “cool” that it was wouldn’t have mattered if that character was a man. As much as you can expect reality in a psychedelic movie far removed from it. I loved the mystery sparked by the therapist about whether she’s really sane or is hallucinating. That goes so well with the color tone and high stylization. (Also, that house was beautiful!)
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ItsVerySimple
May 23, 2023
@hari prasad – Thendral Pudhidhu sounds, to me, like a redux of Poongaatru Pudhidhaanadhu. (The words, the ponvandu, nadhi, kadal ,the train interlude, the bass etc.,) Given that the protoganist is connected to 70/80’s music, I guess that was the ask.
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Rajesh A
May 23, 2023
I don’t understand how Paravaikootil vaazhum meengal is an ode to Balu Mahendra especially in a backdrop similar to Marupadiyum. Because in multiple interviews/tv-shows, BaluMahendra has said that, Thulasi/Revathi didn’t marry Aravindswami because he wanted to insist that for a women, men is not the only solution (meaning a women need not be depended on men. she can still be without men). Perhaps they should avoided this Marupadiyum backdrop. Without Marupadiyum backdrop itself, it would have been an ode to Balumahendra
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hari prasad
May 23, 2023
But for me , it sounded like an abandoned brother of this song, that’s why I brought up Friends :
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Madan
May 23, 2023
“BaluMahendra has said that, Thulasi/Revathi didn’t marry Aravindswami because he wanted to insist that for a women, men is not the only solution (meaning a women need not be depended on men. she can still be without men). ” – Which was exactly how Arth, the movie Marupadiyum was a remake of, ended as well.
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hari prasad
May 23, 2023
I’m not saying Thendral is a ripoff which is something people often use to say it easily , but the sounding , the arrangements all took me back to the “trendy and youthful” songs that Raja composed for Vijay or in this case , Suriya.
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Madan
May 23, 2023
It’s not a rip off but def a deja vu song which seems to have been intentional here.
That’s why it would have been interesting to hear the brief because it seems like TK took the concept of a soundtrack in the Holly sense of the term very seriously. Kaamathupal takes the escalating concept from Hall of the Mountain King. One review compared Sooriyan to Paint It Black; not sure of that, but will compare and see. And Thee Inbamae def has a similar guitar figure as Nothing Else Matters. Everyone has noted the similarities between Aanaal and Palinganaal Oru Maaligai. It’s the two jazz songs Kaalai Visai and Paavi Nenje that don’t evoke any specific number at least AFAIK. If Paavi Nenje is indeed not ripped off from any known jazz standard, then it has enough quality to be elevated to a new one. I am serious. They should do an English lyric version of it and watch it get rich plaudits from AllAboutJazz.com.
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Rajesh A
May 24, 2023
@BR – I have been having this question for a long time. Why is that your reviews doesn’t come under the Critical Reception (or reception) section of wikipedia? Are you aware whether this has been done intentionally by few people in the industry?
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vijee
May 24, 2023
Guys — In Marupudiyum the couple had no children to complicate things. Why would a mom just give up her two young kids as well — not really sure though of course I accept it without q in Marzhagi but the “kid” was already a late teen there, so it matters far less. In any case, this is the ssay “PKM” is adapted from @Subashri Raghavan
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Raghu Narayanan
May 24, 2023
“Paravaigal koottil.. despite being a male fantasy story and despite not revealing what the wife’s true emotions were, was one of the strongest stories. It had some great dialogues, which have become a rarity in tamil cinema. ”
But i thought that what Revathy felt about the separation was quite clearly revealed. There was a scene where she cries in the bathroom while the ‘discussion’ was ongoing. She also mentions that she first threw a tantrum when Ravi first talked to her about separation. All this to me points out that she was not inclined towards a separation and was not reconciled to it. And this is exactly the reason why this story did not work for me. I felt that what Revathy felt internally about the separation was way out of synch with how enthusiastically she planned the next moves. It did not fit well.
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Filistine
May 24, 2023
About the “male fantasy” element in the Bharatiraaja short, I have always had this thought experiment I would do – would the same plot make sense if the gender roles were reversed? Someone had earlier mentioned this about Sindhu Bhairavi – would the plot work if the lead character was a woman singer whose husband has no sense of music and she ends up having an affair with another guy?
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Rahini David
May 24, 2023
That was me 8 years back. I assure you that you will stop watching movies if you keep applying the rule.
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Prat
May 24, 2023
@raghu Yeah, I meant her actions were not consistent with her feelings.
I remember there being a movie where it’s kinda sillunu oru kaadhal’s story but gender swapped. It starred vijayalakshmi from this same anthology interestingly. I don’t remember the name but it wasn’t very popular.
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brangan
May 24, 2023
vijee: Thanks. Do share the links for the other Modern Love essays if you chance upon them!
Rajesh A: I don’t know, man! Maybe they think I only do video reviews now…
Are you aware whether this has been done intentionally by few people in the industry?
Is this a conspiracy theory? I seem to be part of several, these days. See this piece below 🙂
தமிழ் சினிமா ஊடகவியலின் போதாமையே பரத்வாஜ் ரங்கனை முன்னணி சினிமா ஊடகராக நிறுத்துகிறது. அவரது சாதி மற்றும் வர்க்க நிலை அவருக்குத் தேவையான அனைத்தையும் சாத்தியமாக்குகிறது.
https://www.readbetweenlines.com/cinema/analyzing-thiagarajan-kumararaja-the-postmodernist/
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brangan
May 24, 2023
vijay: Congratulations to TK. He has turned you into an interpreter, too 🙂
Yes, that is exactly what that number is. I wrote about it in my review:
“For instance, there is one breathtaking stretch of score that begins with techno beats at a disco and ends up as something grandly symphonic, sounding like Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King. The music, in other words, works like the corridor Sam is often seen in. It is a passage, a link between two different locations or moods. It works brilliantly.”
The “passage” is between a nightclub and the bedroom, foreplay to frenzied orgasm.
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vijay
May 24, 2023
BR thanks for the confirmation 🙂 Interesting , and a bit strange that something as abstract as music sometimes tells you more about whats going on..(whereas films themselves, which are a bit more tangible, sometimes leave me struggling for an access point).
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vijay
May 24, 2023
I liked Yuvan’s score in Aaaranya kaandam too..this TK guy maybe a bit underrated in terms of pushing the composer to get what he wants or so it looks like..Both Pa.Ranjith and TK in their latest works seem to have zoomed past Vetrimaaran in this regard. I am not sure if the milieu that Vetri chooses has something to do with it though, in his defence.
As an aside, stumbled into an English song “Baby you’re my lady” from Oruvar vaazhum aalayam(of all films!) sometime back. Along with sing,swing from Moodupani and that poonthaLir song and All the time from nadodi thendral, if you add Day by Day, mumbai express/Megha songs and then this soundtrack it can make nice collection of transition from pop/funk/disco days to Big band jazz and jazzi’sh rock. Maybe thrown in kaakka kaakka karuppu paaru from Julie ganapathy too in there.
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Rajesh A
May 24, 2023
Filistine – Exactly. I too thought about this yesterday. Would it have been more progressive if the women had told her husband something similar? In this book Toilet Seat by Latha (கழிவரை இருக்கை) they discuss something similar, if women is not happy, men should be open enough to even share the bed with another men albeit not at the same time.
Moreover, whatever the movie is showing isn’t really a big thing – only thing is there is not much fuss.
We have seen numerous examples in cine world itself -Karunanidhi, Writer Balakumaaran, Writer Jayakanthan, Actor Vijayakumar etc etc (my cine knowledge is limited so not able to provide popular names)
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Nimmi Rangaswamy
May 24, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/style/modern-love-he-couldnt-remember-that-we-broke-up.html. Here’s the NYT Modern love story that inspired Ninaivo Oru Paravai.
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vijee
May 24, 2023
That episode must’ve been so much tougher to find @NimmiRangaswamy.
And KT has thickened the plot that much more! The genius of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/style/modern-love-he-couldnt-remember-that-we-broke-up.html
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vijee
May 24, 2023
and this is Imaigal, of course. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/style/together-always-in-darkness-and-in-light.html
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Nappinai
May 25, 2023
The Bharatiraja segment worked for me. It’s an old trope without the fuss but I felt that was the hook to it. All the characters seem unreal in their reaction including the children, so much so, it has a haunting quality to it. I couldn’t understand the motivations of any of the characters completely, but I found the story still engaging.
This was in stark contrast to TK’s segment. I found both Sam and K irritating and consequently couldn’t care less what happened to them, if it was real or not. The color palette too didn’t work for me.
BR, that was such a cute cameo!
One thing I noticed with the original ML-NY series as opposed to the Chennai one is that the former had a distinct city (NYC) vibe to it which I didn’t find here. It was partly where and how the stories were shot but also to a great extent, the characters themselves. The short story with the relationship with the doorman for instance is a very NYC thing that single women can relate to. The Chennai series for me was more generic. Largely, they could have been in Bangalore or any other place in TN.
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vijee
May 25, 2023
Nappinai — I too acutely felt the lack of Chennai in this series.
I have not taken the Chennai metro yet, it featured in 2 episodes.
BR – surely you can tell us which Modern Love essay your cameo was based on…
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Nimmi Rangaswamy
May 25, 2023
The ML-NY is an organic bunch of stories rooted and stemming from the city . ML-C is adapted though to its credit the stories are still quite Tamil in its flavour not necessarily Chennai – the North Madras, Mount, Kollywood obsession all of these are quite good Chennai milieus – PKVM and NOP could have happened anywhere….
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hari prasad
May 25, 2023
I think this was more about how people living in Chennai love than people living and loving Chennai.
The whole confusion could have been avoided had they just named it Modern Love Tamil.
Apdiye vechu irundhalum Tamil nu sonneenga gramatha kaanum nu solvaanga , but that’s a different department.
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Yajiv
May 26, 2023
“The ML-NY is an organic bunch of stories rooted and stemming from the city ”
Not necessarily IIRC, the stories mostly didn’t feel super-tied to New York. They could have happened in any large American city.
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vijee
May 27, 2023
@Rahini David Found the story here. Chubby CA 🙂 . https://femininetosh.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/the-dancer-and-her-muse/
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Jay S
May 31, 2023
This anthology is primarily a cultural invasion by Amazon prime. These stories featured in new York times by people in the USA stuck out like Halloween costumes in our cultural setting. There was not an iota of relatability or truth to them.
I liked the episode in which BR did a cameo because at least the treatment was light with nostalgic references distracting from the bizarreness that this anthology turned out to be. I loved Barathiraja’s treatment of the non sense material given to him and ilayaraja ‘s music in the anthology. Can someone please tell him to use singers that are not him?). TK went crashing down in the elevator shaft of my impression of him. He really needs to work his way back up. His episode was uncomfortable to watch and I couldn’t wait for it to be done. I was so looking forward to it and could care less about every part of it. It had the visual vibes of natchathiram nagargiradhu (I liked that movie) without a purpose. I could tolerate the first 4 episodes. By the 5th, I started feeling nauseated by the downright shoving down of THEIR stories and by the 6th I was shifting in my seat waiting for this madness to end. Aren’t our stories worth this money?
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Madan
June 19, 2023
Started a sort of video essay series on Raja’s work for Modern Love and this is the first instalment. Tried doing it in Tamil/Tanglish this time rather than English.
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Boo
June 23, 2023
Omg! I screamed when I saw you on the screen! I had already decided this was my fav shorts and then your cameo just made it even better. Watched the whole thing with a smile on my face. Not one artifical dialogue or scene. Ritu was perfect. Could nt help myself comparing it to “guitar kambi” and how cringe that was and how refreshing this one was in comparison. All the movie references were 🔥🔥🔥
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Madan
June 26, 2023
Part-2 of my series on Ilayaraja’s songs for Modern Love. This time, I talk about the singing.
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vijee
June 28, 2023
Another analysis of the music of Modern Love, which I really loved.
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Madan
July 2, 2023
Part 3 and the last instalment of my series on Modern Love and here I get to the heart of the matter, the music itself.
This is not likely to be my last video on Ilayaraja, however. If you have any suggestions for topics you’d like me to cover (about Ilayaraja or even anything else pertaining to Tamil music), do let me know.
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