‘TN houses the most intelligent movie audience’
Baaram, the only Tamil film to win accolades at the 66th National Film award is all set to release soon. The director of the film Priya Krishnaswamy said that the film revolves around Thalaikoothal.
By : migrator
Update: 2019-12-09 20:50 GMT
Chennai
“Earlier KD also dealt with involuntary euthanasia or a traditional senicide. I have heard about the film though I haven’t watched it. I was inspired by a couple of episodes of Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate in which he had discussed about Thalaikoothal in detail. This is a practice that doesn’t happen only in Tamil Nadu. It happens across India in remote villages. I did my research and wanted to make this into a documentary. However, I believed that the message needs to be conveyed on a bigger platform. So I wrote the script in a little less than 20 days,”she said.
The film boasts of a cast of 80 members. “I could have cast stars to take the film to a wider section of the audience but I felt that the message will be subdued. I conducted workshops and chose people who I believed will justify the story. When a film has a good content, the audience supports it irrespective of who the cast is. Moreover, the audience in Tamil Nadu do not get attracted by the star value in a film. They are the most intelligent movie audience I have come across and have backed good content across years.
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