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Auteurs and Transitions in Cinema: Discussing New Age Tamil Film Directors

Auteurs and Transitions in Cinema: Discussing New Age Tamil Film Directors
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Author(s): Amutha Manavalan (Deptartment of Journalism, Indian Institute of Psychology and Research (IIPR), India)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 18
Source title: Handbook of Research on Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Santosh Kumar Biswal (Symbiosis International University (Deemed), India), Krishna Sankar Kusuma (Jamia Millia Islamia, India)and Sulagna Mohanty (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3511-0.ch023

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Abstract

The chapter focuses on the transition in Tamil cinema and its subtle yet eloquent approach given by the auteurs in the recent past (from 2000-2018). An auteur film involves subjective and personalised filmmaking, rather than the mechanical transposition of a script onto film. An auteur film is about the filmmaking practices engaged in filming a script. Despite having two different ideologies in this industry, each auteur has managed to achieve and prove a point to the audience and the critiques. These directors were exposed to world cinemas at film institutes and motivated to make similar films in their mother tongue. Expression through cinema was the new identity each of them was seeking identical to that of the audience of Tamil cinema. Some auteurs use formulas of box office success to find it whereas some use innovative ways in cinema to find it.

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