Bharathiraja, the Indian filmmaker whose rural dramas reshaped Tamil cinema across nearly five decades, died on Wednesday in Chennai from age-related illness. He was 84. Born Chinnasamy Periyamaya Theva on July 17, 1941, in Allinagaram in what is now Theni district of Tamil Nadu, Bharathiraja worked primarily in India’s Tamil-language film industry as a director, […]
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