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Geetha Kailasam Interview: The market is built in such a way that a film attracts audiences only when big names are attached to it

What does a piece of clothing represent? Is it your age? Your fashion sense? Or your self-expression? In actor Geetha Kailasam’s Angammal, it represents her character’s self-respect. The film, based ...
The Hindu

Geetha Kailasam interview: On ‘Angammal’ and the challenges faced by a supporting actor in Tamil cinema

A humble little film is turning heads in a select few theatres in Chennai. If you were to give it a chance, you might end up watching arguably the best Tamil film of the year yet. Angammal, directed ...
The New Indian Express

TP Kailasam’s play Tollu Gatti to be out on silver screen as Mookavismitha

Gurudatt Sreekanth’s debut directorial Mookavismitha is based on famous playwright TP Kailasam’s stage play Tollu Gatti. It was staged in the 1950s. The film that travels between 1950 and 2019, will ...
The New Indian Express

Writer and playwright TP Kailasam, a mirth in the face of morality

BENGALURU: Often known as ‘the father of humorous plays’, writer and playwright TP Kailasam’s (1884- 1946) contribution to Kannada literature is immense. At a time when the company theatre landscape ...
Indiatimes

Kailasam Keechaka: a story about a man of love, not of lust

The play Kailasam Keechaka -- which is based on Viraata Parva and was originally conceptualized by TP Kailasam and written by GP Rajarathnam-- will be staged at Ranga Shankara as part of the Sanchari ...