Following news of his death, tributes poured in from across India’s film industry and political circles.<\/p>\n
According to local media reports, actor Rajinikanth attended Bharathiraja’s funeral and became emotional while speaking to reporters. The pair had shared a professional relationship spanning nearly five decades, beginning with the director’s debut film 16 Vayathinile, which helped establish Rajinikanth’s early screen career.<\/p>\n
Actress Radikaa Sarathkumar, who made her acting debut in Bharathiraja’s 1978 film Kizhakke Pogum Rail, described him as one of the most important figures in her life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo people shaped me into who I am. One was my mother; the other was my guru, Bharathiraja sir,\u201d the renowned actress wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n
Father-and-son film stars Sivakumar and Suriya also paid their respects. The former wrote a tribute in The Hindu Newspaper, calling the late director one of “Tamil cinema\u2019s greatest filmmakers. No one can claim the distinction of authentically portraying Tamil Nadu\u2019s villages on the screen”.<\/p>\n
Other tributes were shared by figures including Chiranjeevi, M K Stalin and actor-politician Joseph Vijay, who attended the funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following news of his death, tributes poured in from across India’s film industry and political circles. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,1799,337,2385,107190,153706],"class_list":["post-729229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-india","tag-movies","tag-obituary","tag-tamil","tag-television-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}