Karthik & Shakthi, Alaipayuthey, Mani Ratnam (2000) x The Wave, Gustave Courbet (1860) I'm sorry guys after 2000, LOVE DIED. It drowned after this movie so I have no thoughtful caption. Love is dead, goodnight.
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Varun & Leela, Kaatru Veliyidai, 2017 x Leslie Holt, Unspeakable (hysterical arch after Bourgeois) detail 2, 2019. A woman who yearns for her love to be seen and freed from artificial limits.
I sometimes like to think of MY WIFE Malavika reading one of my favourite books, lying on a Klimt painting. Is that creepy? Yes. Did I make it happen? Yes.
MANI RATNAM x ART
Ganapathy and Bhavani, OK Kanmani, 2015 + The Kiss/Liebespaar, Gustav Klimt, 1908. Celestial, undying love in the time of Alzheimer's.
MANI RATNAM X ART
Adhi and Tara, OK Kanmani, 2015 + Bernice Bing's Burney Falls, 1980. The impermanence of relationships and struggle for labels and identity were both captured in Bing's canvas and PC Sreeram's frame. (this was a hard one to edit)
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Amudha (Keerthana) in Kannathil Mutthamittal (2002) + Sanathanan Thamotharampillai, 'Vamana', (2004). Both Amudha and SL Tamil artist Santhanan here are grappling with a sense of finding home and stability.
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Senthamarai in Iruvar (1997) + Mark Rothko's 'Four Darks in Red', 1958. Senthamarai tends to calm and tame Tamizhselvan's (Prakash Raj) fervor and passion, and the tempered black and passionate reds actually work so well together. Also, well, the obvious.
@kookykarthik Trust me, I can't believe I'm writing and enjoying it either. I think it's really a matter of not pushing for productivity 24/7 and giving yourself space to be still?