#RetroRecreate
Sasikumar’s breakout film marked the start of a “New Wave” in Tamil cinema, successfully fusing the entertainment factor of a mainstream film with the sensitivity of art films, much like Mean Streets did for Martin Scorsese. There are several parallels to be drawn between these two gritty crime dramas that bring out the essence of New York in Mean Streets and the nativity of Madurai in Subramanianpuram to spectacularly effect. Be it the handheld camera sequences, signature long tracking shots, a secret romance, or the matter-of-fact treatment of murder scenes, Subramnianpuram has now come to define the new age cinema of this century well before Anurag Kashyap, Vetrimaran, Karthik Subburaj, and others.
Ahead of a much awaited gangster film Jagame Thandhiram we look back at the OG gangster film from 2008. Subramaniapuram
3 июн 2021