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September 16, 1998

‘Not art for art’s sake’

BALU MAHENDRA, who wrote and directed

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Walking tall

December 20, 1991

‘I don’t jump into a film’

ADOOR GOPALAKRISHNAN, in his fourth feature film

Fable for the times

PK is a film that, through an alien figure, throws up point-blank questions about religious beliefs, customs, rituals, temples of gods, priests, godme

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Prefiguring journalistic truth-telling

AN 85-year-old film made at the cusp of the transition from the silent to the sound era—itself technically soundless, but then what we see exu

Celluloid city

From roadside screenings of short silent films to producing big-budget films, Chennai has come a long way since 1897.

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Anatomy of romance

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