For the second half of the episode, we’ll be talking about the Tamil filmmaker Vetri Maaran with R. Emmet Sweeney, who wrote about the director’s bloody portraits of South India in our new November-December issue. Our special guest host for the episode is FC assistant editor Devika Girish.

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