Thiagarajan Kumararaja is a filmmaker who attracted the attention of the audience from his debut film Aaranya Kaandam. His next film Super Deluxe was celebrated by many movie buffs and had a huge star cast. He is known for making selective films. As fans were expecting him to announce his next film, the director has directed a portion of the new anthology Modern Love Chennai and is also the creative head of the project by Prime Video. The Anthology series is set to release soon on the OTT streaming platform
Ahead of the release of Modern Love Chennai, the director Thiagarajan Kumararaja sat down for an exclusive Interview with national award-winning film critic Baradwaj Rangan. As the interviewer asked when his third feature film will come out and how was this experience was?, the director said “I don’t know if it will be released or not. This started accidentally. Someone else was supposed to produce, it could not happen and I generally said 'I will do it'. I thought it would be TDKF's work then, I became a showrunner. Then, as a replacement director, I had to do that too." He then said It was a very difficult experience. He further revealed that some advantages that were there in making film were not present.
As the interview asked what advantages?. The director Thiagarajan Kumararaja replied "See I produce my films, I tell a story then that’s over, There would be no problems. Here amazon has some restrictions and they have a tie-up with New York Times and for that, they have some restrictions. When we do a film we are the director. Now we have other directors. So as a director, we can't say somethings to them, so, I had to be very careful." when asked about an example, the filmmaker said “Even for character names, some names should not be kept because of the condition of the region that risk is there for them. We don't mind it in the film, but for them, it's an element. If there is a character named Devi, as it means goddess they say it can't be kept.” Check out the full interview: