“I’m deeply influenced by Bergman and his films like Through a Glass Darkly and Scenes from a Marriage. I have spent a long time thinking about human relationships, about how no matter how close we are to someone, we are closer to ourselves—about how this causes conflict sometimes. I find this to be an important issue worth making films about.”
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Modha Rathiri Movie Review: When Two Wounded People Stop Performing
I kept noticing these artificial, awkward smiles in Raja Karuppasamy’s Modha Rathiri. Watch Muthu’s (Anishma) smiles at Marudhu (Rishikanth), even though we know she would rather be anywhere else but with him. Watch in-laws smile at each other in ways that suggest neither affection nor happiness. In this film, people smile because they are supposed…