Pa Ranjith interview with Sudhir Srinivasan | Thangalaan | Vikram | English Subtitles

In this interview with #sudhirsrinivasan, #PaRanjith speaks about #Thangalaan and aspects like VFX, casting, performances, etc., when he started believing in Buddha, Ambedkar, identity politics, and more

Edited by: Pradeep Kumar
Subtitles by: Bala

00:00 to 01:27 - Highlights of the interview
01:28 to 06.35 - Introduction and the experience Ranjith gained from the release of Thangalaan
06:36 to 07:35 - Ranjith on expressing his opinions in public
07:35 to 10.11 - Ranjith on when he started questioning his purpose
10:12 to 18:01 - The history and research that went behind making Thangalaan
18:02 to 25:41 - Belief in Buddha and Buddhism
25: 42 to 30:10 - The importance of stories and storytelling
30:11 to 34:34 - The language and dialect spoken in Thangalaan
34:35 to 44:22 - Magical realism and how it is incorporated into the existing structure of films
44:23 to 53:30 - Characters of Thangalan being white, black and grey and their beliefs
53:31 to 58:18 - Ranjith decodes the scene in which women wear blouses for the first time
58:19 to 1:02:25 - Ranjith's treatment of groups of characters in films
1:02:26 to 1:07:14 - How the cast contributed to Thangalaan
1:07:15 to 1:09:43 - Thangalaan's VFX and the criticisms Ranjith received about it
1:09:44 to 1:12:19 - Romance and some other writing choices in Thangalaan
1:12:20 to 1:13:45 - Ranjith's relationship with gold
1:13:46 to 1:15:29 - Ranjith decodes the climax fight scene which shifts between day and night
1:15:30 to 1:17:01 - On identity politics
1:17:02 to 1:23:01 - How Ranjith deals with controversies and criticisms

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