3 min readChennaiJun 10, 2026 11:47 AM IST Bharathiraja, the filmmaker who took Tamil cinema out of its studios and into the dusty fields, village lanes and emotional landscapes of rural South India, died on Wednesday in Chennai after prolonged ill health. He was 84.His death came less than two years after the loss of...
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