11th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023
With a career spanning three decades in film and television industry, Venkatesh Chakravarthy was regarded as an authority on film history and criticism. Having begun his teaching career at the MGR Film Institute, Chakravarthy went on to work with institutions across the country, including developing the Visual Communication curriculum at Loyola College in Chennai. At the Ramanaidu Film School, he was instrumental in designing the curriculum and was appointed the institution’s first ever dean in 2008.
After holding other academic positions, including that of the regional director at the L.V. Prasad Film and TV Academy, he took over as the Dean of Academics at Ramanaidu Film School where he taught direction, production management and design. He had worked extensively in television, having directed several shows.
Chakravarthy had directed the documentary Chennai: The Split City, and had served as a script consultant and consultant for some films.
Venkatesh Chakravathy has had his work published in journals and magazines. A collection of his writings on Tamil cinema was published as a book, Suvadugal: An Anthology of Film Criticism (Volume 1), of his writings on Tamil cinema.
He passed away in Chennai in July 2022. He was 70. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
Film : Chennai - the split city
Directed by Venkatesh Chakravarthy; 70 min; Tamil and English with English subtitles; 2006; Documentary
Cinematography – Sashikanth Ananthachari
Sound – R. Elangovan
Research – M.S.S. Pandian, A. Srivatsan & Venkatesh Chakravarthy
Initially, this film started on a personal note propelled by the desire to document my (the director’s) lived experience of the city of Chennai. Later after shooting a bit of the Besant Nagar episode, we happened to get sufficient funds to make an alternative dissemination project for IDPAD & INTACH as M.S.S. Pandian (Social Scientist) and A. Srivatsan (Architect) wished to document their research on the city along with mine.
The main thread then became how with globalization the city began to be envisioned as an ideal destination for the international business traveller as against the earlier envisioning of it as an ideal destination for the international tourist. Caught as it was in the process of unprecedented change and development we wished to document the objectives of this move and the processes that marginalized the North Chennai while privileging South Chennai. Hence the title, Chennai – The Split City.
Homage : Venkatesh Chakravarthy
With a career spanning three decades in film and television industry, Venkatesh Chakravarthy was regarded as an authority on film history and criticism. Having begun his teaching career at the MGR Film Institute, Chakravarthy went on to work with institutions across the country, including developing the Visual Communication curriculum at Loyola College in Chennai. At the Ramanaidu Film School, he was instrumental in designing the curriculum and was appointed the institution’s first ever dean in 2008.
After holding other academic positions, including that of the regional director at the L.V. Prasad Film and TV Academy, he took over as the Dean of Academics at Ramanaidu Film School where he taught direction, production management and design. He had worked extensively in television, having directed several shows.
Chakravarthy had directed the documentary Chennai: The Split City, and had served as a script consultant and consultant for some films.
Venkatesh Chakravathy has had his work published in journals and magazines. A collection of his writings on Tamil cinema was published as a book, Suvadugal: An Anthology of Film Criticism (Volume 1), of his writings on Tamil cinema.
He passed away in Chennai in July 2022. He was 70. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
Film : Chennai - the split city
Directed by Venkatesh Chakravarthy; 70 min; Tamil and English with English subtitles; 2006; Documentary
Cinematography – Sashikanth Ananthachari
Sound – R. Elangovan
Research – M.S.S. Pandian, A. Srivatsan & Venkatesh Chakravarthy
Initially, this film started on a personal note propelled by the desire to document my (the director’s) lived experience of the city of Chennai. Later after shooting a bit of the Besant Nagar episode, we happened to get sufficient funds to make an alternative dissemination project for IDPAD & INTACH as M.S.S. Pandian (Social Scientist) and A. Srivatsan (Architect) wished to document their research on the city along with mine.
The main thread then became how with globalization the city began to be envisioned as an ideal destination for the international business traveller as against the earlier envisioning of it as an ideal destination for the international tourist. Caught as it was in the process of unprecedented change and development we wished to document the objectives of this move and the processes that marginalized the North Chennai while privileging South Chennai. Hence the title, Chennai – The Split City.
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