Iru Mugan’s trailer, released this week, shows Vikram playing Love, a campy character who’s seemingly the villain. Do such portrayals reinforce negative stereotypes about homosexuals and transgenders? Prakash Raj actor I think it’s wrong to be insensitive towards a community, and depict its members only as villains. Even when I agreed to play a transgender…
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In search of a hit
The films Bharath rejected went on to become hits—like Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambam that went to Dhanush. “But I know there’s no use thinking about this. Dhanush refused Kaadhal, and it came to me. It all evens out.”
Wherever I may roam
Darbuka Siva, debutant composer of upcoming Sasikumar-starrer, Kidaari, tells me that every action in his life is guided by the nomad in him As Darbuka Siva tells me how quickly he tires of routine, how everything he’s ever done in life is to avoid repetition, I cannot but be reminded of Red’s assessment of Dufresne in…
Fear of the dark
“There is usually nobody hiding in the shadows, but what if there was somebody there?”
A ‘mammoth’ effort
Arjun Kapoor, who has dubbed for the Hindi version of Ice Age: Collision Course, tells me what it was like to mimic other actors like Anil Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, and Sanjay Dutt When Arjun Kapoor says that being an actor doesn’t just mean facing the camera, he isn’t just drawing generic quotes from Cliches 101 for Actors….
Sudhir Srinivasan 