Thiagarajan Kumararaja Interview with Sudhir Srinivasan | English Subs | Modern Love Chennai

In this conversation (mildly filled with spoilers and English Subs) with Sudhir Srinivasan, director #ThiagarajanKumararaja talks about #ModernLoveChennai, his idea of love and god, the working equation with #Ilaiyaraaja, and a lot more

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00:00-01:56 - Introduction
01:57-03:05 - Working with Amazon Prime Video
03:06-04:35 - Romance, and why TK hates romcoms
04:36-07:02 - Putting the Chennai in Modern Love: Chennai
07:03-09:00 - Where does TK figure in Modern Love: Chennai
09:01-10:30 - TK channelises his inner Kauffman
10:31-11:08 - Why TK loves the initial phase of romance
11:09-12:25 - TK on sex, society's hypocrisy, and staging
12:26-18:55 - Demystifying TK, and the bliss of just being
18:56-23:48 - How does TK absorb the wonders around him?
23:49-24:50 - Why TK loves the Bharathiraja segment the most
24:51-26:40 - The beauty of using older songs
26:41-28:00 - How does TK consume films
28:01-37:42 - ILAIYARAAJA
37:43-40:18 - TK on the greatness of Bharathiraja
40:19-41:12 - Being a showrunner in Modern Love: Chennai
41:13-43:46 - Respecting the audience's time
43:47-45:20 - Do we need this scene at all?
45:21-49:07 - Who decides what is love? Who decides anything at all?
49:08-52:22 - Being the invisible and neutral spectator in any scene
52:23-54:55 - TK on the importance of dialogue writing
54:56-59:00 - TK on GOD
59:01-59:20 - TK on his one-stop source of inspiration
59:21-1:01:42 - Pressure of expectations and evolution as a filmmaker

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