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Interview: Masterclass: Vetri Maaran
Posted on June 28, 2024
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Baradwaj Rangan 
Jayram
June 28, 2024
Engaging masterclass. Though I haven’t watched all of Polladhavan, I have watched a majority of it, including the parts he mentioned long back and could understand them better after his explanation. I’m looking forward to the remaining parts.
Did any of the blog commentators here attend this in person like hari prasad, madhusudhan19, AdhityaKR or Karthik?
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Voldemort
June 28, 2024
oh wow a live masterclass! Damn, where did this happen and when?
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hari prasad
June 29, 2024
Thanks for making Vetri speak about Pollathavan a lot in this meet.
He has a condescending and dismissive look about this movie because of his later works, I always thought of Pollathavan as a really good masala movie with the stamp of a director all over with the dual narration , the verisimilitude , the literature touches he said in this video and a self centered hero who goes to any extent to get back the thing he lost.
The song placements and the romance (though it gave us those funny Santhanam – Karunas back and forths) were major downers.
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hari prasad
June 29, 2024
No , this happened on a Friday , I was at work , so couldn’t attend this event.
Oru neyar virupam : Please ask the organisers to conduct these events at weekends so that more people can attend and get educated from these great directors.
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madhusudhan194
June 29, 2024
@Jayram: nope. Wasn’t aware of it. I’m not on Instagram or Twitter and don’t remember seeing anything about it in the blog.
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vijay
June 29, 2024
VisaaraNai in part 3 ?
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brangan
June 29, 2024
Not sure vijay. We did talk about specific scenes from all films – but I don’t know how the edit has been done.
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Thupparivaalan
June 29, 2024
you should have asked him how he shot the engeyum eppodhum remix, like play the full song and make him watch it.
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brangan
June 30, 2024
Part 2 is now up.
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brangan
June 30, 2024
Part 3 is up…
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Thupparivaalan
June 30, 2024
I was too quick to judge him about that song. I wish he can go back to Visaranai mode and gives us what he wants taking long breaks. Some filmmakers need some time to regrow and seems like Vetri is one of them. Though he gets embarrassed about looking at his own films again, he can be very very proud of the work he did in Visaranai and Vadachennai, two classics of Tamil Cinema. I hope he can grow out of the tiredness to release the 4-5 hour version of vada Chennai that had the extended flashback portion – contrary to others I don’t want him to embark on part 2. Sequels shot after long time don’t lend themselves well to suspension of disbelief – the actors age, their voices change.
I rewatched visaranai after these interviews and it was a spine tingling experience. Even knowing what’s gonna happen to the protagonists, the rewatch still felt very nervy. Democracy or Autocracy, the monopoly on violence needs to rest with some, and how arbitrary and unethical the people with that monopoly become is what Visaranai is about. It doesn’t care about anything but its own purposes. But, I’m glad we still have the space to make films about the system, even though the freedom rests to who’s making the film, censor, who’s in power at the time of making, etc. Vetri might have gone more mainstream after Visaranai, but he shouldn’t worry too much about it. Sometimes all you need to feel proud about can be a single thing you did in the past.
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vijay
June 30, 2024
Scary to think he goes to the set not exactly knowing how his story is going to go further beyond a point. And he seems to be an instinctive filmmaker,somebody who almost travels along with his characters in realtime and then decides how their arcs are going to bend and what decisions they are going to make and so on..Havent seen his recent stuff yet like Asuran/Viduthalai but Visaaranai was easily better than anything that I saw that year or the next, and it is going to resonant and be relevant for a long time..especially when incidents like that still happen and at times are horrible enough to shake up the collective conscience like the Benicks/Jayaraj custodial deaths in Saathankulam in 2020. This was truly a ‘horror’ film.
Wondering if somebody could write a horror film where a director goes to a set with a half-done story arc and as he finishes things up to the half-way point he gets hit with a terrible creative block and doesnt know how to take things forward or wrap up the film, especially with a pressing production deadline..Maybe Vetri himself could make it 🙂
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