Jagat has won awards (after changing the competition procedure) and was commercially successful. Are you proud of what you accomplished with it, its impact, considering that it took ten years to shoot?
Commercially not much, but for the limited theaters and the limited run, it was good, but commercially, no. But I am actually proud for its success and its impact, and I think, that in the end, the hardships actually helped the film to become better.
Jagat portrays Tamil in Malaysia living a very difficult life in the 90’s. What is the situation now?
I think the situation is a lot different, they have a lot of hardships. There are many people that were brought into the place by the British to work in their estates, like 200 years ago. After they gained their independence, there was no proper restoration plan and they were rejected from the industrial development. So...
Commercially not much, but for the limited theaters and the limited run, it was good, but commercially, no. But I am actually proud for its success and its impact, and I think, that in the end, the hardships actually helped the film to become better.
Jagat portrays Tamil in Malaysia living a very difficult life in the 90’s. What is the situation now?
I think the situation is a lot different, they have a lot of hardships. There are many people that were brought into the place by the British to work in their estates, like 200 years ago. After they gained their independence, there was no proper restoration plan and they were rejected from the industrial development. So...
- 11/25/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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