Balu Mahendra to the script". As a film-maker, he claimed himself as belonging to the realistic way of story-telling devised by Satyajit Ray and Vittorio De Sica. Mahendra was drawn towards realistic cinema after watching Ray's "Pather Panchali" (1955). He is credited as being one among the earliest filmmakers to bring "naturalism" in Tamil cinema in the 1970s. He usually photographed, scripted and edited all his films. His films were characterised by strong "visual appeal" and minimal number of characters. A majority of his films centre on the complexity of human relationships and are known to portray women as strong characters. Although
Paul Kelly (film maker) completed a six-year documentary about Felt, Denim and Go-Kart Mozart front man Lawrence entitled "Lawrence Of Belgravia" which premiered at the 2011 London Film Festival. Kelly and Saint Etienne collaborated again on "How We Used to Live" (2014), which has been described as "a cherishable, woozy-hazy trawl of London from postwar days to yuppiedom". Paul Kelly (film maker) Paul Kelly (born 23 July 1962 Farnborough, Hampshire) is an English film director, musician, photographer and designer. The son of an RAF fighter pilot - he took up flying aged fourteen, making his first solo flight on his seventeenth birthday. However, a