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J. Mahendran.

Icon of change

Mahendran (1939-2019) set a new path in Tamil cinema with his deglamorised films.
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Bernardo Bertolucci.

Master craftsman

In a career spanning 50 years, Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018) was equally at ease with epic historical dramas and intense psychological movies that w
Venkatesh Chakravarthy
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The star, the actor & the woman

Many of the characters played by Jayalalithaa in her films were dramatisations of patriarchal anxieties, with the female body rendered pleasurable and
VENKATESH CHAKRAVARTHY
VISAKHAPATNAM, 28-08-2008: D. Rama Naidu, film producer, addressing a press conference on his new movie `Kausalya Supraja Rama', at his Studio in Visakhapatnam on August 28, 2008. Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam

Dream merchant

Daggubati Ramanaidu (1936-2015) is remembered not just for the record number of films he produced. He launched many careers, fostered film-making in H
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Nageswara Rao in the film Devadas.

In search of new narratives

As differentiation between genres began to get blurred in the early 1970s, the star and his relation to the fan became the sole aesthetic preoccupatio
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