
Director #Vasanth (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Vasanth) has completed 30 years in the film industry, talks to Baradwaj Rangan about his life, how he handled his failure, how veteran music directors experimented even with lesser technology and more.
Sep 16, 2020
51 min

Director #Vasanth (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Vasanth) has completed 30 years in the film industry, talks to Baradwaj Rangan about his life, his mentor K Balachander, the importance of music in his life, working with #Ajith (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Ajith) and various technicians, introducing new faces like #Suriya (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Suriya) , and more.
Sep 16, 2020
58 min

Director #PaRanjith (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23PaRanjith) talks to #BaradwajRangan (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23BaradwajRangan) about his intentions while making his films, how communities are depicted in films, he also talks about his experience as a producer, the discussions he had with the director MariSelvaraj and about his upcoming film #BirsaMunda (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23BirsaMunda) , which is going to be his biggest political film.
Jul 22, 2020
52 min

#PaRanjith (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23PaRanjith) talks to #BaradwajRangan (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23BaradwajRangan) about his childhood, incidents that triggered him to dive deep into understanding the caste system. How and when his inclination towards politics started and how he started adding political elements in his plays and movies. He also talks about his role model #BRAmbedkar (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23BRAmbedkar) .
#Journeys (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Journeys)
Jul 22, 2020
51 min

In PART 2 of JOURNEYS, director #MariSelvaraj (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23MariSelvaraj) talks to Baradwaj Rangan about his upcoming film #Karnan (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Karnan) with actor #Dhanush (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Dhanush) , the importance of Jo's and the killer's characters in #PariyerumPerumal (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23PariyerumPerumal) , the filmmaking aspect, and about educating future generations through his films.
Jul 22, 2020
48 min

In the latest JOURNEYS, director #MariSelvaraj (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23MariSelvaraj) talks to Baradwaj Rangan about his early life, his family, why he wanted to become a filmmaker, about social change and how #PariyerumPerumal (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23PariyerumPerumal) changed things.
Jul 22, 2020
46 min

Ravi Varman is one India's top cinematographers. In this two-part video, he talks about his struggling days, moving on to early films like Jalamarmaram, Shantham and Armaan. He describes how he developed a cinematographic eye and how he acquired his learnings from big and small films. He talks about being inspired by painters like Rembrandt.
And he speaks about special shots and moments from the films he worked on: Jalamarmaram, Santham, Five Star, Armaan (with Anil Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan), Kilichundan Mampazham, Phir Milenge (with Salman Khan and Abhishek Bachchan), Autograph, Anniyan (with Vikram and Shankar), Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (with Kamal Haasan and Gautham Menon), Dasavathaaram, Villu (with Vijay), Barfi! and Jagga Jasoos (with Ranbir Kapoor and Anurag Basu), Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (with Sanjay Leela Bhansali), Ugramm, Tamasha (with Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone) and Kaatru Veliyidai (with Mani Ratnam and Karthi). His upcoming films include Sanju and Indian 2.
Jul 22, 2020
25 min

Ravi Varman is one India's top cinematographers. In this two-part video, he talks about his struggling days, moving on to early films like Jalamarmaram, Shantham and Armaan. He describes how he developed a cinematographic eye and how he acquired his learnings from big and small films. He talks about being inspired by painters like Rembrandt.
And he speaks about special shots and moments from the films he worked on: Jalamarmaram, Santham, Five Star, Armaan (with Anil Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan), Kilichundan Mampazham, Phir Milenge (with Salman Khan and Abhishek Bachchan), Autograph, Anniyan (with Vikram and Shankar), Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (with Kamal Haasan and Gautham Menon), Dasavathaaram, Villu (with Vijay), Barfi! and Jagga Jasoos (with Ranbir Kapoor and Anurag Basu), Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (with Sanjay Leela Bhansali), Ugramm, Tamasha (with Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone) and Kaatru Veliyidai (with Mani Ratnam and Karthi). His upcoming films include Sanju and Indian 2.
Jul 4, 2020
29 min

In this interview with Baradwaj Rangan, the National-Award winning cinematographer talks about his camaraderie with Mani Ratnam, directing Kamal Haasan in ‘Kuruthipunal’, which he describes as his most satisfying film yet, and the ‘stagey’ filmmaking of K.Balachander.
Sreeram also lists his influences and his admiration for the works of Mahendran and Ashok Kumar. Talking about how breaking convention gives him a high, the legendary lensman opens up in this episode of Film Companion South’s Journeys.
Jun 21, 2019
41 min
