A Towering Figure of Cinema: PM Modi Mourns Bharathiraja's Demise

 New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed grief over the passing away of veteran director, producer and screen writer P Bharathiraja, and said he was a towering figure of the film world whose works transformed Tamil cinema.Bharathiraja died on Wednesday due to age-related complications in Chennai, leaving behind a rich legacy of filmmaking that saw the studio-to-village transition in Tamil cinema.

"The passing of Thiru Bharathiraja Ji is very saddening. He was a towering figure of the cinema world whose works transformed Tamil cinema. Particularly noteworthy was his portrayal of rural life. My thoughts are with his family and admirers in this hour of grief. Om Shanti," Modi said in a post on X.