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WHO INSPIRED JAN 2018 WHOM? In this week’s article we’ll be hearing about Srinivasan Aravind’s inspiration. Srinivasan Aravind bagged the first place for the best film in ‘Amateur Filmmaking’ category in Indian Film Project’s competition conducted in 2017. Here’s what Indian Film Project 2017’s winner Srinivasan Aravind got to say about his inspiration ‘MANI RATNAM’. Tamil cinema has reached great heights and continues to give good films at a regular rate. Many directors and writers helped Tamil cinema to attain this level. Many new directors tried new techniques and storytelling method to produce a good film for the audience. Back in the 80s it was the time when the commercial formula was prevalent and lot of directors chose it to give hit films. At that period a new kind of film making was born Which resulted in the Parallel cinema. One of the most important directors Who were the reason for this change Is Mani Ratnam. FLICK 2018 PAGE 22