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Filmmakers have always used the beach to represent love and life.. | Photo Credit: VELANKANNI RAJ B Filmmakers have always used certain symbols, motifs, and signifiers to represent ideas, concepts, and places. Over the many years, popular city landmarks, including the hotel Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai and the Cubbon Park in Bengaluru, have been…
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Steeped in politics: Kalapriya, an admirer of MGR, worked for the DMK from the 1967 election and then for the AIADMK. | Photo Credit: N. Rajesh Sudalaimadan Koil Street in Tirunelveli occupies a distinctive place in the landscape of modern Tamil literature. The street has been home to several literary figures, including Sahitya Akademi Award winners Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran, popularly known as Thikasi, and Vannadasan. Thikasi also served as the editor of Thamarai,…
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M.G.R. fans celebrate the digital re-release of the film Nadodi Mannan (1958), at Egmore’s Albert Theatre in 2018 | Photo Credit: G. SRIBHARATH The movie-going experience in the Madras of the early 1980s was largely centred around Mount Road. There were theatres in and around Poonamallee High Road too, and most new releases were watched…
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