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Silly to complain about a mega blockbuster film with its own creative logic but I would have loved to see ARR in PS1 use Sangam/Chola/Azhwar literary sources & older ragams such Ahiri/Indalam/Kaanakurinci/Puraneeru etc. Musicality that is largely going extinct...
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After the great Nilakantha Sastri's foundational work on Chola history in the 1930s, the new generation of scholarly work that began with Y. Subbarayulu in the 1970s. [I used to have a copy, now sadly can't find it!]
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One of the characters in PS1 is Sembiyan Mahadevi -- I saw a stunning bronze, that is now believed to be her, two weeks ago at the Freer Sackler in DC:
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Four glimpses of Queen Sembiyan Mahadevi that I saw at @NatAsianArt -- mother of Uttama "Madhurantaka" Chozhan, as Goddess Uma/Parvati | Tamil Nadu, Chola dynasty, ca. 990 | Bronze. An extraordinary beauty and an indescribable sense of calm, of this world and beyond it.
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I was thinking about this film this morning and realized that an entirely different & more befitting treatment given the complexity may have been a 50-60 hour series. A good example of this (highly recommended) is the brilliant Chinese show: The Rise of the Phoenix. On Netflix.
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While listening to a lecture on the life of Kalki Krishnamurthy, author of Ponniyin Selvan, I learnt that one of KK's great influences was Tagore whom he met after paying a fee. Tagore was collecting funds to establish Viswabharati, for which he even 'modeled' in advertisements.
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