Chennai,April30 : Apart from usual news of jet setting by Nayanthara and beau Vignesh, - Their production house Rowdy Pictures Pvt Ltd backed Koozhangal ( Pebbles) the Tamil film has been adjudged the best film of a new director by film critic Richard Brody ,under the category New Directors/New Films series (which runs from April 28th to May 8th, both online and in person).. This was mentioned in the The New Yorker online portal by the film critic. He tweeted -Pebbles, directed by P.S. Vinothraj, is the one essential, unmissable dramatic feature I've seen in @NDNF which starts tomorrow; it's further proof that observation is inseparable from imagination, aesthetics from substance:
About director Vinothraj film making he writes - Vinothraj films the women’s work in intimate detail and at awestruck length, showing exactly what a mere cupful demands of them. It’s among the most memorable endings in recent cinema.
He writes - "Vinothraj’s passion for detail is analytical—it’s a passion for infrastructure, for the conditions of mere subsistence, and for the menace and despair that those conditions impose. (In another scene, he painstakingly films a different family’s poignantly ingenious schemes to catch and eat rats.)"
Richard is movies editor for Goings On About Town and the author of “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.”. He started writing for The New Yorker since 1999 and writes about movies in his blog, The Front Row.
Koozhangal is only the second Indian movie to win the Tiger Award after Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s Sexy Durga in 2017 in International Rotterdam Film Fest.
The film would have been among the many films that started with gusto and little money to end up a dream half completed. Lean and Teach Production House members who felt that Vinothraj had the stuff after seeing his short films backed the project. Half way through, it ran out of money. It was placed in the Film Baazar of IFFI Goa (2019) asking for co= producers. Director Ram whose film Peranbu and Taramani are most talked Tamil films saw the film work. He got excited seeing the output. He took it to Yuvan to score a BGM ( it has no songs), next he suggested a few changes and reshoots. From there he took it to Vignesh Shivn who with Nayanthara had floated a production house. Rest is history.
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