TypePad 2010-07-29T16:25:43Z Deepa Deosthalee http://www.filmimpressions.com/home/ tag:typepad.com,2003:http://www.filmimpressions.com/home/2010/07/essay-cinematic-realism-and-the-new-tamil-bloodfest/comments/atom.xml/ tag:typepad.com,2003:6a01287727d5cf970c0133f2d62531970b 2010-08-04T08:00:17Z 2010-08-04T08:00:17Z Aruna chakravorty

V nice piece. Can't forget the scene in the Tamil Ghajini where the heroine Nayantara gets beaten up by the...

<p>V nice piece. Can&#39;t forget the scene in the Tamil Ghajini where the heroine Nayantara gets beaten up by the two goons in a swimming pool, and the entire college of girls look on. And the scene goes on and on and on... Shows not just what Tamil cinema is, but also how tamil society views women -- </p> tag:typepad.com,2003:6a01287727d5cf970c0133f2b596bc970b 2010-07-30T01:54:05Z 2010-07-30T01:54:05Z Sivakumar

Paruthi Veeran and Subramaniapuram owe quite a bit to early films of Bharathiraja's like 16 Vayathinile in terms of brutal...

<p>Paruthi Veeran and Subramaniapuram owe quite a bit to early films of Bharathiraja&#39;s like 16 Vayathinile in terms of brutal portrayal of violence in rural settings. Kamal Haasan&#39;s Thevar Magan and Virumandi also had a fair bit of blood and gore in pretty realistic surroundings. The big difference in Bala&#39;s films, though, is that he seems to get a kick out of violence the way Tarantino does with a generous amount of black humor mixed with conventional gore and that has added an extra dimension to his school of film making.</p>