There was an article in Chennai Times [Supplement to Times Of India] in which an interview with Anusha Rizvi, the director of Peepli Live came out yesterday. For the uninitiated, Anusha Rizvi is the one who made her debut with Peepli Live, the movie that got released last year. Produced by Aamir Khan, the film dealt with the suicides of the farmers in Maharashtra from a different point of view. It won rave reviews and she was here in Chennai to receive the Gollapudi Srinivas award for the best debut director for the same film.
In the interview she talks about various things and it seems that this is her first visit to Chennai but what surprised me was her statement that she doesn't watch too may Tamil films but she asserts that she is going to buy a handful of DVDs of the legend Nadigar Thilagam. She says her trip would be incomplete without that. She is only 33.
Again goes to show that even the new breed of directors who are committed to path breaking films, irrespective of their language, irrespective of the part from where they come from finally lands up at NT, when it comes to quality.
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[Sathya,
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