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Arivalayam lapdogs hiding as periyarists and ambedkarist have been handpicked during Pa.Ra support for Porkodi sister.

First three films of myskinn 🖐😎🖐

Shortly after Dhurandhar’s success, star-director Aditya Dhar told Ram Gopal Varma (Ramu) that he’d essentially made “Satya, Company, and added patriotism!” Ramu told me this. Anurag Kashyap, likewise, tells me he often wonders aloud to blockbuster filmmakers, when they admit to having been inspired by him: “What did you see in my films to [churn out] ₹600-800 crore [hits]?” To be fair, directors of Malayalam minimalism express the same sentiment to Kashyap (Black Friday, Gangs of Wasseypur, DevD). Among Ramu’s biggest bhakts, publicly voicing impact of his cinema they grew up on, are the likes of Prashanth Neel (KGF), Sandeep Vanga Reddy (Animal). Besides that they’ve been such influential, working writer-director-producers, over multiple decades — what’s common to Ramu, 63, and Kashyap, 53? Firstly, Satya (1998), which the latter, as co-writer, debuted in movies with; and that the former, rightly believes, is still his “most perfect” work as director. Also, both are mainstream auteurs. For, what’s any great popular cinema, if not inevitably meeting mid-way, between self-expression, and certain public expectations from the medium itself. They’ve widely resonated with realism (in characters, storyline), for believability — in a manner that even Star Wars is realistic. It’s what Dhar does with Dhurandhar, too; only amping up scale/style to altogether another level. What else? Column👇🏽link in bio.