The real pioneer though in Tamil cinema, when it comes to giving fans such peeks into the creative process, is of course Kamal Hassan. The videos have all been hosted on YouTube in Think Music India’s page. The film itself seems to be on the way to becoming a cult classic and several fans have lapped up sequences featuring characters that have grown on them - from ‘Assault’ Sethu, film maker Karthik, his Oorni and that inimitable acting coach ‘Muthu Sir’ - in scenarios that advance the story rather nicely but could not be accommodated in the final cut. Jigarthanda, young director Karthik Subbaraj has recently released the scenes that did not make it past the editor’s snip in the final cut on the movie via his Facebook page. In an interesting gesture to fans of his movie One of the reasons for it could be the lacklustre home video market where satellite television rights still call the shots. Though it is a common practice, among American filmmakers especially, to include ‘deleted scenes’ as a bonus feature in DVDs of their films, the trend is yet to catch on here in a big way.
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