Mahendran Icon of change Venkatesh Chakravarthy Mahendran (1939-2019) set a new path in Tamil cinema with his deglamorised films.
Bernardo Bertolucci Master craftsman Venkatesh Chakravarthy In a career spanning 50 years, Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018) was equally at ease with ...
The actor & the person The star, the actor & the woman VENKATESH CHAKRAVARTHY Many of the characters played by Jayalalithaa in her films were dramatisations of ...
D. Ramanaidu Dream merchant Venkatesh Chakravarthy Daggubati Ramanaidu (1936-2015) is remembered not just for the record number of films he ...
Telugu In search of new narratives VENKATESH CHAKRAVARTHY As differentiation between genres began to get blurred in the early 1970s, the star and ...