Kamal too appreciates Taare Zameen Par and Aamir
Aamir Khan has been widely appreciated for Taare Zameen Par, a movie which marked his directorial debut. Kamal too joined in, when he announced the national-level Best Debutant Director Award on behalf of the Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Foundation. He was accompanied at the press conference by long-time friends Gollapudi Maruthi Rao and Singeetham Sreenivasa Rao.
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Maruthi Rao, readers would recollect, featured in many Kamal movies including Hey Ram, Indrudu Chandrudu (Indran Chandran) and Swathi Muthyam (Sippikkul Muthu). This award is instituted in memory of his son, Srinivas, who died under tragic circumstances. This incident was used by Kamal in Anbe Sivam, with a reference to ‘tsunami’.
[Based on inputs from Ananth]
March 20th, 2008 at 4:12 am
With all due respect to Aamir, I think the award should have gone to one Mr. Navdeep Singh, the director of Manorama, Six Feet Under. That was a brilliant effort. Especially, making a debut with a noir film, despite knowing that Indian audience won’t understand/appreciate it, is not an easy task. Navdeep did it.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:28 am
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