Lights, Camera, Kathipara: Chennai’s vanishing role in Tamil cinema

Since the ‘60s and ‘70s, Tamil filmmakers have found fascinating ways to celebrate Chennai on celluloid. However, in the last five years, filmmakers have largely refrained from using the city as a storytelling instrument, in romanticised depictions and sobering socio-political explorations

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