Veyyil at Cannes

I was blog-morbid for a month till I could post yet again today. I didnt have the luxury of time on hand. I am back this weekend, a long weekend, thanks to Good Friday.

The thought for the weekend is one of happiness. A recent down-to-earth, but brilliantly executed Tamil film called "veyyil", which I have listed as one of my favourites, has won an entry into the Cannes Film festival due next month. Of course it is not in the competitition section where my fellow country-man Shaji.N.Karun had been featured three times, but in the "cinemas of the World".

The young director, Vasanthabalan, will indeed be proud to be showcased with the
best of the contemporary world Cinema. He is bright and has a tremendous sense of cinema. Let's wait for more from him.



By the way, the producer of this movie is the block-buster guy, Shankar, who directs only multimillion extravaganza in Tamil. Interesting that a part of the megabucks he makes dressing up ageing Tamil superstars goes into interesting cinema. They are interesting because they are not slow-paced bores like the ones made by the beard-herd in the neighbouring state of Kerala, but engaging cinema. Serious cinema, that is eminently watchable.

Indian cinema is definitely going through a very interesting phase. Cinema is one medium that tells us that there are several Indias within India.