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Insight

Shankar To Begin Filming Velpari With Tight Budget Limit: Reports

The filmmaker has called the upcoming film the biggest and most ambitious project of his career.

BY Team THR India
Director Shankar
Insight

'Velpari': Shankar Promises Global-Scale Adaptation of Historic Tamil Novel

Based on CPI(M) MP Su Venkatesan’s novel, 'Velpari' traces the life of the legendary Tamil ruler Vel Paari and his resistance against the Chera, Chola, and Pandya dynasties.

BY Team THR India
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Theatrical

‘Game Changer’ Movie Review: Shankar Fails to Change His Game, Despite A Valiant Ram Charan

Shankar's vision feels socially dated. It’s not that his brand of storytelling has changed; the problem is that it’s still the same.

BY Rahul Desai
'Game Changer' Movie Review
Theatrical

'Game Changer' Movie Review: Ram Charan, S. J. Suryah Herald An Almost-Return To Form For Shankar

Director Shankar’s latest, is an attempt at a return to form. At times, it feels like an aging band playing their greatest hits. At others, it feels like covers by a tribute act—there’s warmth in the familiar melodic turns and an ability to surprise yet.

BY Sagar Tetali
Kiara Advani and Ram Charan in Shankar's 'Game Changer'
Interviews

From 'Gentleman' To 'Game Changer': How Director Shankar Uses Songs In His Films

If television had advertisements, Shankar’s films had music, where the narrative takes a pause and unhinges itself, stretching the imagination in a yawn that bends the logic of time and space. But, as we push forward into a new era, and as fears further change, the form must bend—or the form shall wither.

BY Prathyush Parasuraman