Bharatiraja perhaps can take credit for introducing the maximum number of new faces in Tamil. And all of them have made it big later.
They are Bhagyaraj, Revathi, Radha, Radhika, Karthik, Rati Agnihotri, Vijayashanthi, Sukanya, Ranjitha, 'Nizhalgal' Ravi, Rohini, Sukanya, and the list continues. The latest is Priya Mani.
It is true that of late, he has not met with the kind of success he was used to in the eighties and the nineties as the idiom has changed and a new breed of filmmakers has entered the scene.
Even films with rural Tamil Nadu as the setting have a new style and new way of telling the story, quite different from what Bharatiraja did earlier.
Maybe the mantle has moved from Bharatiraja to a new breed of filmmakers like Cheran (all his films are set in the rural milieu except Mayakkannadi), Ameer (Paruthiveeran), Balaji Shakivel (Kadhal) and Vasantha Balan (Veyil).
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