When two legendary personalities come together for a creative purpose, it’s sure to create artistic brilliance. Considering that those two personalities are Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta collaborating for the celluloid version of "Midnight's Children", the expectations are for nothing short of a masterpiece.

7am Arivu was a film I was eager to watch, especially once the story of Bodhidharman came to light prior to its release. Like many, I went about researching this long forgotten historical figure. I was intrigued to learn that a Tamil man had taken on this incredible mission of spreading Buddhism, the art of self defence, and is revered and worshiped in China and other South East Asian countries.

On September 10 TIFF presented its first screening of Azhagarsamy’s Horse (AH). I went to it assuming that those who would be checking out the film would mostly be Tamil speaking.When I arrived at the theatre, though, there was a huge line made up of a variety of people. It was great to see an innovative Tamil movie like AH being received by such a diverse group.