Made on a tiny budget by a first-time director and a cast of newcomers, Subramaniyapuram was a smash hit with audiences all over South India from the big cities to the villages and has been cited as a major influence by some of India s most respected filmmakers. A tale of friendship, betrayal, love and revenge set in Madurai in the early 1980s, the film pioneered a new, gritty aesthetic in Tamil movies that caught the attention of film lovers around the world. When Subramaniyapuram was released in 2008, it cut through the ostentatious glitz of mainstream Indian cinema like a machete. The locality is the real hero of the film: a conversation with M. An experiment in publicity/Preminda Jacob. A time machine for Tamil Cinema/Baradwaj Rangan. Realism on and off the screen/Constantine V. Architects of a Cinematic world/Anand Pandian. Sasikumar translated by Kausalya Hart, Constantine V. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover. Sasikumar on the process of making the film and its historical and cultural significance. This edition includes: a gripping English translation of the screenplay galleries of full-colour film stills and posters never-before-seen photos from the shooting of the film essays by Preminda Jacob, Constantine Nakassis, Anand Pandian, and Baradwaj Rangan on the film's cinematic context and social impact and a wide-ranging interview with director M. Made on a tiny budget by a first- time director and a cast of newcomers, Subramaniyapuram was a smash hit with audiences all over South India-from the big cities to the villages-and has been cited as a major influence by some of India's most respected filmmakers.
Translated from the Tamil by Kausalya Hart & Constantine Nakassis.
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