Hello Makkaley,

Meeting you all after a long time, I'm pleased to share an episode featuring a friend, Ram Murali, who Interviewed Actor/director Rahul Ravindran about his new film, The Girlfriend, which is his Third film as a Director.

Recently, Rahul Ravindran posted the screenplay draft of his brilliant film, “The Girlfriend.” This led to Ram structuring an interview with him around the choices he made to transform his vision from script to screen.

Chapters:

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Introduction: The director-actor collaborative process

13:30

Flee or Freeze: the choices around the kiss scene

19:42

Dolly zoom and heart pounding bgm: The staging of the “I love you” moment

23:06

Prison bars, walls and dhupattas: The placement of symbols

38:31

The perfect ally: Durga’s presence and absence in the film

49:25

The ‘heavy’ foam pit: the locations of key scenes

66:00

A happy accident: two crucial intercut scenes

75:32

Professor Sudheer: the role of exposition

86:55

Bhooma’s transformation: the grand finale (with a priceless anecdote around a water bottle)

You can follow Ram on his Twitter under @rmurali2012Meet you soon, Ciao :)

Hello Makkaley,

In the fourth episode of this season, we have Ram Murali as our guest, and this is his maiden episode. Ram and I discuss one of Vijayakanth's lesser-known movies, directed by Bharathiraja, Thamizhchelvan.

Vijayakanth plays an Honest IAS officer, and this movie is different because we won't see the usual Captain's antics, stunts, or the Punch dialogues, but a subtle Captain, which is different from most of his on-screen and off-screen personas.

Link to the Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cM5ctTvywQ

Do listen to this episode and share your feedback.

Until next time, ciao :)

Hello Makkaley,

In the Third episode of the season, Praveen and I discussed Vijayakanth movies where he was part of the system, be it a Police Officer, IPS, IFS, or even Marine Officer for that matter, and how he created a name for himself and rose to become Tamil Cinema-win Captain.

We also discussed many other things in this episode, apart from Captain. I hope you enjoy listening as much as we did recording it.

Until next time, Ciao :)