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A 23-year-old woman has become the first Civil Court judge from the Malayali tribe in Tamil Nadu. V Sripathy, hailing from Yelagiri Hills in Thirupathur district, cleared the Civil Judge exam conducted by TNPSC. Applauding Sripathy's accomplishment, Chief Minister MK Stalin said, "I am pleased to see a tribal girl from an underprivileged hill village achieve this at such a …

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Muttiah Muralitharan, celebrated as one of the greatest bowlers in the annals of cricket, was in Chennai for the trailer launch of his biopic, 800. Directed by Sripathy and featuring Madhur Mittal as Muralitharan and Mahima Nambiar as his wife Mathi, the film aims to provide an intimate look into the cricketer’s life. Filmmaker Venkat Prabhu and my wife Mathi …

In 2020, a biopic on legendary Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was announced. While putting in the caveat that in biopics, without appropriate make-up, the character doesn’t look convincing, Sripathy said, “Madhur has done a fantastic job. While research on Murali’s life itself took six months, Sripathy, along with another writer Shehan Karunatilaka, worked for another one year on the …

Outwardly, Sripathy Karri’s Telugu film Korameenu is a routine cops-and-gangsters drama. There are many points in the plot where the unexpected rears it glint-eyed head and we go, ‘We never saw this coming!’ Picture this. Raju’s wrath over his criminally shaven moustache runs through the plot like a cross between a joke and an action trope. Neither funny enough to …