Creating Life

This discussion gets into SPOILERS for SUPER DELUXE. You have been warned. 

After making us wait for 8 years after his cult first feature AARANYA KAANDAM, Thiagarajan Kumararaja returns to the big screen with SUPER DELUXE. Starring Vijay Sethupathi, Samantha Akkineni, Fahadh Faasil, Mysskin, Ramya Krishnan, few Tamil films outside of the blockbuster mainstream have been as hotly anticipated and as immediately dissected online. And just with his first film, Kumararaja is not one to dance to Kollywood's tune.

Sindhu and Nikhil dig into SUPER DELUXE by first contextualizing why the film has been this awaited, then jumping into all the layers that we were able to find the first time around. 

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"Me In Your Life" 

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While Generation Z might be the first to grow up surrounded by the Internet as we know it, the generation that was born in the 1990s came of age in the early 2000s (including Nikhil and Sindhu) along with the Internet. We started social media with Myspace and Orkut before we had Facebook, we had Yahoo Mail accounts (!!!) before we moved to Gmail, and Dailymotion and Justin.tv were just as legitimate as YouTube. The Internet seemed to have limitless potential back then, and all of it was seen through a Utopian lens. 

10+ years after the Big Four companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple - entered our lives and stayed there, the Internet looks very different. Scandals with Internet companies are happening on a near-daily basis, like Google's recent data leak of Google Plus user information, Amazon strong-arming its sellers, WhatsApp's circulation of fake news having violent consequences, and Facebook's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, 2018, causing us to question our relationship with these companies, and by extension, the Internet at large. 

So where do we go from here? Nikhil and Sindhu attempt to find out.

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When director Sarjun KM released his short film, Lakshmi, he didn't expect the attention that it received. Today, it has over 9 million views on YouTube and has garnered critical acclaim and a lot of outrage about its depiction of extramarital affairs. 

Sarjun is gearing up for the release of his second feature, Airaa, featuring Nayanthara in the lead. In this episode, he speaks with us about how the project came about, the struggle finding a distributor for his debut feature, working as an assistant to Mani Ratnam, and what he hopes for from Airaa.

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Are millennials the burnout generation? Why does it feel like literally everybody else in the world has a better grip on life than we do? If we don't work out, meal prep our Insta-worthy lunches, get three double promotions at work and develop our own strain of cannabis at college, does it mean we've failed? 

Well, it certainly feels like it.

In this episode, we talk about what it's been like growing up with that kind of pressure. We also try to understand where that pressure came from us. Where do we go from here? What does the process of recovery look like?

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Love On Wings Riddim by KonradOldMoney - YouTube Audio Library

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Adulting, Vijay Sethupathi, microbreweries, the Internet, and interviews with creative South Asians. And that's only a taste of what's to come. 

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