I Thought Tamil Audience Would Embrace Kuberaa With Wider Arms

ROUND the release of Kuberaa, a social media post went viral. It referred to National Award-winning filmmaker Sekhar Kammula as 'a guy from nowhere' who came to deliver a superb film for Dhanush.

- AVINASH RAMACHANDRAN

ROUND the release of Kuberaa, a social media post went viral. It referred to National Award-winning filmmaker Sekhar Kammula as 'a guy from nowhere' who came to deliver a superb film for Dhanush. Even though this 'guy from nowhere' was in his 25th year as a filmmaker and has made path-breaking films in Telugu, including Dollar Dreams, Anand, Godavari, Leader, Happy Days, and Fidaa, Kuberaa was new ground. "It felt really good. This guy is getting to know me just now, and I am sure he would understand me through my films. The next time, he might go to watch the film made by the Kuberaa director," says Sekhar, in an interaction after the release of the Tamil-Telugu bilingual, which is facing oscillating fortunes at the box office. While the Telugu version has set the cash registers ringing, the same can't be said about the Tamil version.