Vignesh Srikanth

have curated a common playlist link for all the five shortfilms I've written and directed. youtube.com/playlist?list=… do support your local filmbro, share it and crack some visibility for these works if you love them! :)

a sight like this was so appealing.. before netflix

@NaviKRStan Never thought We will see a day when an incel say Tabu is Over hyped. The woman who portrayed Lady Macbeth and Gertrude 2 of the most complex women characters of literature with such finesse. Kids be saying anything nowadays

Where every note whispers love 💫🎧 #Indra from #OnceMore - now playing youtu.be/DQL7pRi-bmo?si… Singer - #HananShaah Lyricist - Vignesh Srikanth Written & directed by @isrikanthmv 🎬 A @heshamawmusic musical 🎶 @iam_arjundas @AditiShankarofl @OlickalSona @editorNash @Foxy_here03 @Yuvrajganesan @thinkmusicindia @MillionOffl @proyuvraaj

are you full of love because you’re full of grief, or full of grief because you’re full of love

My contribution to society is I don’t speak when I’m not educated enough on a topic

Soft, soulful & straight to the heart 💫🎧 #Indra from #OnceMore is out now youtu.be/DQL7pRi-bmo?si… Singer - #HananShaah Lyricist - Vignesh Srikanth Written & directed by @isrikanthmv 🎬 A @heshamawmusic musical 🎶 @iam_arjundas @AditiShankarofl @OlickalSona @editorNash @Foxy_here03 @Yuvrajganesan @MillionOffl @proyuvraaj

❤️✨ Indra - Video Song | Out Now

The truth about Ramayana is that it has been adapted into various formats over the years, and the filmmakers are still struggling to come out of its serialized hangover. No matter what they try, their version is like serial with a bigger budget, and I can't even say better visuals. What we need right now is not another retelling of Ramayana, but a reinterpretation through a particular character, their psychological depth, and how they felt about what was happening rather than an omniscient view. A great story can be interpreted in many ways. A Ramayana entirely from Sita's perspective would show her isolation, her agency, her moral clarity against societal expectations. Or from Ravana, not glorified but psychologically unpacked, with ego, obsession, righteousness, and self-delusion. Even Lakshmana, with loyalty turning into quiet resentment or moral conflict. Or the most radical idea, a fragmented narrative where Rama is not the center but a force that each character interprets differently. I am sure there are good enough writers to do that, but the risk is not commercial, it is cultural. To reinterpret Ramayana through a single psychological lens is to invite accusations of heresy from the right wing. The right wing truly has no aesthetic sense, because they lack imagination. They do not understand myth or lore, or even religion, yet they want to chest thump about how they are the protectors of religion. But if you go back to the tradition itself, it was never that rigid. There isn’t just one Ramayana, there are hundreds across regions and languages. The moment a culture decides its stories are too sacred for reinterpretation, those stories stop being living things and become statues. And statues, no matter how golden, cannot teach us anything new. The right wing tends to treat texts like the Ramayana with reverence, as if they need to be preserved. Their instinct is to protect the text and keep its meaning stable. They see the epic as something already complete and morally settled. But when they do this, even an attempt at interpretation starts to feel like distortion or disrespect. So the text becomes frozen. It is safe and elevated, but it loses all its complexity. They risk making it look like a moral class for students at school, removing complexities. The left wing often does the opposite. They treat interpretation as a way to take the text or rip the text apart and discard it as myth, as if something being a myth is wrong in and of itself. They approach the epic with suspicion, questioning power, gender, caste, and ideology inside it. But in that process, showing any reverence starts to seem naive. So instead of engaging with the text as something alive, they risk turning it into a political object to be criticized or thrown away so as to counter the present political atmosphere. Right now this situation feels inescapable because the loudest voices demand only one kind of reading. The irony is that these texts were built to handle many interpretations. They are full of contradictions, silences, and hard questions about duty, violence, gender, and power. If those questions are not being explored, it is not because the material is shallow. It is because we are choosing safer and simpler readings.

Ponniyin Selvan is a great movie series, and I will always defend it. As much as the film was about the history of the Cholas, I believe Mani Ratnam had a particular affinity for Aditha Karikalan over any other character in the film. The truth is that Mani Ratnam and Jeyamohan gave the characters, especially Aditha Karikalan, far more depth and nuance than Kalki did in the book. Kalki was heavily inspired by Alexandre Dumas and adopted the French serialized novel format, mapping it onto Chola history. Nandhini feels almost directly drawn from Milady de Winter. Both are exceptionally beautiful, deeply scarred, and fiercely intelligent women who use seduction and manipulation to dismantle empires. Both carry a hidden, dark past and function as the central engines of political intrigue. Vandiyathevan fits the classic d'Artagnan archetype. He is a quick-witted, slightly naive provincial youth who rides into the capital on a horse, quickly becomes entangled with royalty, and survives largely through charm, luck, and courage. However, Kalki did not have the same flair for psychological depth as Dumas, nor did he offer insight into the human condition in a way that makes the reader pause and reflect. That can be partly excused by his primary goal, which was cultural revivalism. He aimed to instill a sense of grandeur, pride, and romantic idealism about the Tamil past. In doing so, Kalki chose sweeping romantic heroism over the messy and contradictory depths of human nature. Whether this was a conscious choice or a limitation is uncertain. Mani Ratnam, on the other hand, reconstructs Aditha Karikalan entirely for the screen. He takes the skeleton of Kalki’s character and infuses it with the weight of a Shakespearean tragic hero. Vikram's portrayal leans heavily into a Macbeth-like descent into madness. A man haunted by the ghost of his own violent actions, entirely self-aware of his impending doom, and practically begging for release. The film fills the emotional and psychological gaps left in the novel and reshapes a sprawling adventure into a more intimate and tragic character study. Unfortunately, I believe people are obsessed with Ponniyin Selvan because it is a great gateway into Tamil literature, but objectively it feels closer to something like Harry Potter than to what one might call a truly great work of literature. Unfortunately, we do not have many strong entry-level novels to ease readers into the tradition. Over time, it drifts into memory and grows larger than it really is, to the point where nothing else can quite match the version they have built in their imagination.

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Introducing @OlickalSona as “Indra” from #OnceMore ❤️✨ Check out “THE OTHER WORLD” TEASER 🥳🎉 🔗 youtu.be/Ms0NkW9jXRk The Calicut diaries unfold… more to love & rejoice ✨ Written & directed by @isrikanthmv ✨ A @heshamawmusic musical 🎶 @iam_arjundas @AditiShankarofl @editorNash @Foxy_here03 @Yuvrajganesan #ThinkMusic @MillionOffl @proyuvraaj

Introducing @OlickalSona as “Indra” from #OnceMore ❤️✨ Check out “THE OTHER WORLD” TEASER 🥳🎉 🔗 youtu.be/Ms0NkW9jXRk The Calicut diaries unfold… more to love & rejoice ✨ Written & directed by @isrikanthmv ✨ A @heshamawmusic musical 🎶 @iam_arjundas @AditiShankarofl @editorNash @Foxy_here03 @Yuvrajganesan @thinkmusicindia @MillionOffl @proyuvraaj

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From being an in-house editor at 2D to becoming a film editor this journey is theirs as much as it is mine.

whole another world in few hours..

I read somewhere that men could have one epic evening and live out their entire life reminiscing about it.

My greatest adult disappointment was discovering that bad people get away with everything.

it was a cultural reset

Both Illaiyaraja and ARR are geniuses but are completely different from one another . What I find hollow in many people is that they are so prejudiced in favor of one or the other that they forget that there have been gigantic composers in India before these people. When it comes to music, it’s never one against the other, it’s what each one brings in terms of freshness and originality and both of these names are brilliant. Why compare

Songwriter to songwriter, watch more movies.