ಪ್ರೇಮ ಕಥೆಗಳ ಏರಿಯಾ ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ದಿನ..

ಪ್ರೇಮ ಕಥೆಗಳ ಏರಿಯಾ ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ದಿನ..
ಭಾರತೀಯ ಚಿತ್ರರಂಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಡಲ್ಪಡುವ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಶೇಖಡಾ ತೊಂಭತ್ತೈದರಷ್ಟು ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು ಪ್ರೇಮ ಕಥೆಗಳೇ ಆಗಿರುತ್ತವೆ.
ಹೀಗೇಕೆ? ನಮ್ಮ ಚಂದಮಾಮ ಕಥೆಗಳನ್ನ ಓದಿದಾಗ ಅಥವಾ ಅಥವಾ ಮುಂದೆ ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಮಾಡ ಬೇಕೆಂಬ ಆಸೆಯಿರೋ ಹೊಸಬರು ಮಾಡುವ ಎಷ್ಟೋ ಶಾರ್ಟ್ ಫಿಲ್ಮ್ ಅಥವಾ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿ...ಎಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲು ಆಗೋ ನಾಟಕಗಳನ್ನ ನೋಡಿದಾಗ... ನನಗೆ ಕಾಡುವುದು ಇದೇ ಯೋಚನೆ......

ಏಕೆ ಚಿತ್ರ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರು ಅಥವಾ ನಿರ್ಮಾಪಕರು ಪ್ರೇಮಕಥೆಗಳ ದಾರಿ ಹಿಡಿತಾರೆ? ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಖ ಇದೆ
ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಥೆ ಇದೆ.... ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನೋವಿದೆ.... ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಂಗೀತವಿದೆ... ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಲರ್ ಇದೆ.... ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಣವಿದೆ.... !!
ಪ್ರೀತಿಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಪಟ್ಟಂತೆ ಹೊಸ ಹೊಸ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತಗಳನ್ನು ಸಹ ನಮ್ಮ ಚಿತ್ರ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರು ಹುಟ್ಟುಹಾಕಿ ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪಿ.ಎಹ್.ಡಿ
ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ ...ಮಾಡ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ....

ಪ್ರೆಮಕಥೆಗಳ ಸಿನೆಮ ಮಾಡುವುದು ತಪ್ಪಲ್ಲ.... ನಮ್ಏರಿಯಾ ಕೂಡ ಪ್ರೇಮಕಥೆಯೇ ...aadhare .... ಪ್ರೀತಿಯ ಪ್ಯಾಕೆಜಿಂಗ್ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಿಲ್ಲ... ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನಾವು ಪ್ರೇಮಕಥೆಯನ್ನ ಹೇಳಲು ಛಾಯಾಗ್ರಹಣದ.. ಅಥವಾ ರಮ್ಯವಾದ ತಾಣಗಳ ಕೊಲಾಜ್ ಮಾಡಿಲ್ಲ...
ನಾವು ಮೊದಲೇ ಹೇಳಿದ ಹಾಗೆ ಇದೊಂದು ಕಿತ್ತೋಗಿರೋ ಲವ್ ಸ್ಟೋರಿ ಅಷ್ಟೆ...
ಎನಿವೇಸ್... ಕಮಿಂಗ್ ಟು ದಿ ಪಾಯಿಂಟ್.. ಪ್ರೀತಿಯ ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳು ಸಿನಿಮೀಯ ಆಗೋ ಮುಂಚೆಯೇ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರು ನಿರ್ಮಾಪಕರು ಎಚ್ಚೆತ್ತು ಕೊಂಡು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಜೀವನಕ್ಕೆ ಹತ್ತಿರವಿರುವಂಥ ಪ್ರೀತಿಯನ್ನ ಪರದೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ತೋರಿಸಿ...
ಜಿವನಕ್ಕಿರೋ ಕಥೆ ಹೇಳುವ ತಾಕತ್ತನ್ನ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಿದರೆ ..... ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿರುತ್ತೆ ಅನ್ನಿಸುತ್ತೆ...
ಕಂ fall ಇನ್ love!
preeti ಅಂದರೆ ಮಳೆ ಹಾಡಲ್ಲ ..ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಅಂದ್ರೆ teertahalliya bettagaLalla... !

ಮೇಘನಾ ಎಂಬ ಕಂಠ ದಾನ ಕಲಾವಿದೆ

ಎಷ್ಟೋ ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಅನುಭವವಿರುವ ಕಂಠದಾನ ಕಲಾವಿದೆಯರಂತೆ ಮೇಘನಾರವರು ಬಹಳ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ತಮ್ಮ ಪಾತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ತಾವೇ ಡಬ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು ಬಹಳ ಖುಷಿಯ ವಿಷಯ.

ಕನ್ನಡವನ್ನು ಬಲ್ಲ , ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲೇ ನಟಿಸ ಬಲ್ಲ ಇಂತಹ ನಾಯಕಿಯರು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವುದು ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ ....

tappang....!

why do filmmakers have tappang songs in movies? Because the rhythm makes the audience stand up and dance...? Because the audience wanna see their hero groove like mad ? If that is the case...then our thalenovvu song is the king of tappang. Anish has danced superbly in the song!
Just watch out for those moves guys. M sure u he will have you dancing along with him

forgot to add

forgot to add..
I gotta super cool coffee mug....as a gift...
nw i drink ma coffee in that mug...

live fun!

had gone on air..live on C BANGALORE...twas nice fun..
The host jijoy...asked me some cool questions...abt the film ...abt me....
nice to understand that the promo is being appreciated all over

A SMALL PUZZLE

lovvu thalenovvu...
eee deshdalliro---liro----neliro---galli----galliliro----gella naanu----lodu-----vvu----.
hudguru maado rowdysmginta hudgiru maado---- ne dangerru--- udguru laangu macchu-----udgeeru---- preeti------thaare--- neevu neevaagiri---- anta----nimmanna neevu---- kodangi---- kannadili mukha nodko-----sentimentu---- kurpu--- kettidtaare----

FILL UP THE BLANKS
LOVE
NAM AREALONDINA

song editing and attitude!

I think Indian filmmakers are very lucky... they have the option of shooting songs for their movies! Songs and the way they are shot, I feel should reflect the attitude of the filmmaker apart carrying the feel and so on of the movie. Great example in this case was Mungaru male ....its songs were a neat mixture of the emotional quotient of the movie as well as reflected the attitude of the person making the film.... there was emphasis on attitude in that movie.
Another song i loved was from the film 'GELEYA' ..ee sanjeyaakaagide...!That song too reflected the attitude of the filmmaker and his technical skills.

My all time fav filmmaker with respect to songs would be telugu filmmaker krishnavamsi...
whatever song it might be... the peculiar way he cuts the song...leaves me amazed. I am like...wow! what arrogance...what fun!!
Now...with NAM , I have the golden opportunity to edit my songs in my style...apart from scenic beauty and dance and everything...I have played around creating a style around all the songs of the film.... cutting it in a style that might not be liked by conventional filmmakers. I also dont believe in the word 'MTV editing' as some people call it...!
Concept editing in songs is a new style that I have worked on. CONCEPT EDITING is something I have coined for my advantage though. Concept editing according to me is not editing the song according to a traditional pattern but to edit it to reflect the song emotion along with creating a style around the film...
WATCH OUT FOR THE PECULIARLY EDITED NAOD SONGS....M SURE PEOPLE WILL LIKE THEM...ATLEAS HOPING PEOPLE WILL LIKE THEM.
Back to editing now!!

chennai chamatkaara!

.....................................................SPEECH SCENE FROM NAM AREALONDINA...............................

...had been to chennai to record ranjit's voice for jamaise. Unfortunately...ranjit did not turn up...he had his own reasons...

Was looking for a peculiar voice for another song 'Kanyaamani' .. and we found one super cool voice from there called Mukesh. So... we recorded Mukesh's voice for Kanyaamani and m thrilled with his singing. Super work.. Man!! Twas terribly hot in chennai...!! But the ride back from chennai was fun... coz me and arjun were discussing the re recording of the film and how different we could make it... 'BREAK THE RULES' is the mantra for the re recording of NAM AREA..

chennai morro

gotta leave early in the morning ..m off to chennai to record ranjit's voice for jamaise..wil be back by evening...and will do a blog update...just some waiting...!

pyaar hua..ikraar hua hain!

Pyaar hua ...ikraar huaa... hain... kittogiro lovestory ya kittogiro maleyalli kittogiro chatri hidkondiro hudugiya jothe kittogiro hudugana kittogiro stillu..! COOL.... THE LOVESTORY ROCKS!!
Nywz... not many posts for the last couple of days and dat was coz was busy at studio with the editing etc ... Meanwhile Chaitra sang the female parts of the jamaise song and she rocked LITERALLY.
I DONT MEAN LIKE 'ROCK ON'.. THE fake rock music film in bollywood ishtyle.
Nyways again..
kuch paane ke liye kuch khona bhi padta hain.. i guess and m losing out on valuable blogging time in between all the work frenzy...
Today's blog is a little more diff than te usual ones...arjun made me listen to his'madhura pisumaatu' song from birugaali and it was suckh a soulful one i fell in love with it. We went on to discuss abt AR REHMAN SAAB and what a genius he is. That was when we were singing 'jaage hain der tak hume...kuch der sone do.... thodi si raat aur hain..subah ko hone do..aadhe adhure khwaab jo pure na hosake...ek baar phir se neend me woh khwaab bone do'.. from GURU.
This song is so inspirational that I listen to it every night before I dose off. It reminds me abt how valuable time is and dreams are and how valuable it is to live a life where you do what you want to do.
Probably man is the only animal which thinks ten thousand times before doing what he or she wants to do. ... We think abt ..whether it ir right for us to do what we want to do... we think about the success and failure of what we want to do... we think about whether we know how to do what we want to do.. we think abt so many things bfore doing what we want to do and in the process... sometimes we dont do what we want to do.
I think man takes life too seriously to not do what he wants to do.
Life , I think is very simple. YOU LIVE... YOU LIVE SOME MORE... YOU LIVE SOME MORE TILL YOU ARE TIRED OF LIVING AND THEN YOU DIE. NOW... DEATH HAPPENS EVEN IF YOU DONT DO WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF DOING. DEATH WILL HAPPEN EVEN IF YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO... BUT DO YOU WANA DIE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING OR NOT IS A PERSONAL CHOICE...
Personally , I am some one who never takes life seriously because I very clearly know that I am not here for eternity. Today... mayb tomorro...may b one year later... may b fifty years later... never know when... the bell will ring for me. I am very sure it will ring though and I dont want to waste time. I want to do all those things I can... ( positive things)... I want to try and touch as many skies as I want... because one fine day... it will b the 'END' of everything for me.

This is my inspiration...this is my personal legend...this is my philosophy to live... and I hope all creative individuals have something like this in order to try and achieve what they want to do.
WARRIOR OF LIGHT... !
I leave this blog now with these lines from BLOW...
Life passes most people by with them making grand plans for it...

I DONT WANT TO MAKE PLANS ... I WANT TO LIVE LIFE ARAVIND STYLE...

sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hain.. dekhna hain zor kitna baazu e khaatil main hain.

media noir!! WHAT IF MA BLOG HAD A CEO?

Note: The below written piece of writing was born as a result of the after effects of the dreaded disease called 'the media disease'.
Also, this piece of fiction can be a very good screenplay idea for a film belonging to a whole new genre of film noir called 'media noir'. MEDIA NOIR cinema would be that cinema whose main plot would always be 'victimisation of the soul'. Another off shoot plot would be 'entertainment terrrorism'. And the story begins....

Gosh! Wat a nightmare! I was happy twas only a nightmare but what if it really happened? What if ma blog had a CEO? CORPORATE SWEAT RUNS DOWN MY FOREHEAD AS I THINK OF WHAT I JUST SAID... What if my blog had a CEO? In fear, I turn on my computer to find that my blog is peacefully asleep mindless of the trauma I am suffering in trying to ward off evil designs.. But for how long? Till what time will I be able to protect my blog from the clutches of the MEDIA DISEASE. I pray to GOD to give ma blog .. a longer life. ...!......

Haa haa haa! Media noir is born! ET then was a film abt something else.. today ET to me means
ENTERTAINMENT TERRORISM. Here, we all are victims and we all are terrorirsts.

Everything in entertainment today is poll based. Everything. Everything has to be voted for and against and people clap in their minds at the results and move on.
TRP MANIA. Even a smile that passes you by on second look will make you realise was an ad for a toothpaste commercial. People wear labels...they eat labels...they drink labels and live labels. LABELS STUCK TO SOUL!
...NOW I PUT BACK MA BLOG TO SLEEP AS I TRY AND SING FOR IT A LULLABY OF INNOCENCE...
.............keliddu sullaagabahudu..nodiddu sullaagabahudu...

ಹಾಗೆ summane

ಏನೋ ಇದೇ ..ಏನೋ ಇದೇ ...ಇ ಪ್ರೀತಿಲಿ ಏನೋ ಇದೇ... ಅಧ್ಬುತ ಹಾಡು ....
ಅಂತೆಯೇ...
ಈ ಕೆಳಗಿನ ನಾಲಕ್ಕು ಸಾಲುಗಳು ..namma ಚಿತ್ರದ ಒಂದು ಹಾಡಿನಿಂದ..

ಕಣ್ಣು ಕಂಡ ಕನಸು ನನಸಾಗೋ ಕನಸ kandenaa... ಕಂಡಿತಾಗ ಕಣ್ಣು.. ಈ ಕನಸುಗಾರನ...
ಕವಿ ಇವನ kavite ಇವನಾ... ಕಣ್ಣೀರು ಒರೆಸೋ ಕರುಣೆ ಇವನಾ...
ಮನ್ಮಥನಾ ಇವ ಮನ್ಮಥನಾ.. ಮನದಾ ಮನೆಗೆ iva ಮಾಲಿಕನಾ...

SUNDAY BLOG!

This is a precious SUNDAY blog.. Where am relaxed...sipping coffee and not worrying so much about work. I even played with blog colours and changed ma profile fotograf.. m happy with this one. I LOOK LIKE A FILMMAKER here...ha ha ha! And...it is wonderful to read so many comments abt the film 's opening scene. A couple of ideas, I thought were so good that I could actually have made that the opening of the film instead of what I have now..! Nywyz...sterday ..was editing the opening scene and well... actually..it is a very normal opening scene..no big buzz abt it. A little abt Maathukathe here....

Come..NOVEMBER 3rd... we start shooting for maathukathe in manipal and that sounds like quite a holiday to me. Satya Hegde wil be there wit me and we wil definitely make a freak out film .. the casting is yet to be completely finalised and i think I will think abt it today. Again... abt Maathukathe.. ARJUN is doing some nice melodies this time... (only four songs in that film)..

Now back to AREA...

this time we are gonna put a very diff corporate looking paper ad for NAM ...with one of ma fav lines from the film... 'kan hodiyo hudugi sikkre...hoge haakskolakku ready!!'..

As i write this... I am listening to yeno ide from Psycho... brilliant song... ! ...

story innu idhe magaaa...

Today was busy with the final voice mix of 'kaapaadiko' with shamita malnad. She did a good job of the second charana of the song... Now... lemme just make this a little more informative...

NAM is through wid shooting... we might shoot (only if) for one more day.. (we need some styling shots dat's all)... and we have successfully wrapped up shooting of the film. Now... editing of almost half the film is done with and simultaneously the dubbing has also begun. The music work is also in its final stages with some fifteen days job pending. AKSHAYA AUDIO is releasing the audio next month. And from the date of audio release..our publicity will be dhamaal and another month or so for the film release from audio release. Ottnalli...

NAM is all getting geared up for the public. Simultaneously, our DI and special effects groundwork is happening ..and soon SANTHOSH will have to do his needful with the special effects work.

WE ARE COMING SOON !!

Hey... my dear friend Magesh's dhimaaku is out and playing in the theaters...please go and watch the film and encourage him...

And now... story innu idhe magaa...!

Every time I see a new film 's poster or wait for a new film as it unfolds at the theater.... I am obsessed with what the first scene of the film would be like. HOW THE FILM OPENS ' matters a lot to me. The attitude , the style... the titling... the speed ...the punch..the sound... whatever... but....to me ... I love openings that make me go wow! I loved the openings of both Mungaru and Duniya. While Mungaru was very laid back ...in tune with that film... DUNIYA was power packed ..in tune with that film.

That's why i started a game... to see what people might expect from NAM 's opening.

NAM's opening is something that made me make the film... that is for sure. The images I had seen... 'ee sinmaa hingee open aagbeku' antha'...that is how we have opened the film....

STORY INNU IDHE MAGAA..... !!

playin a game..

hey... all... just playing a game... i want max comments on this one...
This game is not for the guys who know my film....
Lets play a game , a crazy guessing game...
WHAT COULD THE OPENING SCENE OF NAM BE LIKE?
LETS C......

OF SATYA and RAMUJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

One of those visits to my mom's cousins' place as a kid probably triggered off a filmmaking instinct in me. Those were the days of VHS casettes and ma mom's cousins had brought home a film called 'SHIVA' and were watching it with seriousness not typical of a telugu masala film audience. I didnt realise that day that the maker of this film would go on to me cinematic moments that would inspire me to become a filmmaker like him. 'Shivaa...shivaa shivaa....vaademi devudaa?" some cricket playing seniors of mine used to say all the time. I knew it was a line from that film ...a line spoken by the dreaded 'bhavani' ( late RAGHUVARAN) . I was fascinated by that line. RAMGOPALVERMA was unknown to me then.

Time passed by and then there was this another film which some uncle suggested was a must watch and so , me , my sister and cousins..all of us ran to the nearby theater to watch that film ..'KSHANA KSHANAM'... This time, I was so ...so...so blown by the movie ..its tough to describe it. To me it was what cinema was supposed to be. I knew this was just another film and and just another story...but the way the story was being brought to life was awesome... and that is when I realised that there was this guy called RAMGOPALVERMA..the director who made it possible. Soon, I realised that this was the same guy who had made SHIVA..

I saw SHIVA again. RAMGOPAL VERMA WAS MA FILMMAKING GOD. I used to eagerly watch out for his films... films like gulabi( dir: krishnavamsi) , rangeela, anaganaga oka roju, deyyam, started rolling in... and this guy could never go wrong!! I chiselled ma film making technique and screen writing style by watching his films...

And then came..the masterpiece... SATYA... I watched that film 57 times on last count. To me, probably, SATYA was the best that I could expect from the filmmaker who never tried to be 'holier than thou' in his storytelling. SATYA was real, honest and so simplistically made . Some say COMPANY was technically more advanced than SATYA but for me the opposite is true. COMPANY was intentionally stylised and the jump cut pattern and the soundtrack was very pop. But, SATYA had to be told in raw and real circumstances and the use of craft in that film was the stroke of a genius. The pull back shot to introduce the hero waking alone in a crowd in mumbai, the blast sound juxtaposed with the candid footage of the collapsed buildings...wow! The shot near the shore where both chakri and manoj stand back to camera and discuss their siuation... the scene on the terrace where chakri says 'happy birthday vidya'.. or the simple and haunting montage of 'baadalon se kaat kaatke'.... the scene where bhiku and gang are trying to get truth out of one guy and satya talks to vidya outside ...(check out SANDEEP CHOWTA's rr in dat scene)... the grand finale ..( the ganapati bappa frenzy..) and after all that a simple and true ending to a film story. Through out the film... not in a single frame do we see an insincere film maker .He just told us a story looking at us eye to eye and got up and left...!

That was RGV then.. and now he is RAMUJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! RAMUJI and his brand of cinema now is definitely far superior than those bollywood kid films, but the point is ...technique is not everything. CONTNE AND TECHNIQUE must merge somewhere to make a great film. RAMUJI cinema either reeks of strong and unwanted technical skills or reeks of flimsy ideas that often dont get developed into strong scripts. Mayb, he is not able to see the whole film as one nowadays. Nyways, with SARKAR RAJ he showed me he stil has the same story telling capactiy that i saw of him in kshanakshanam or satya... and that is why i loved that film inspite of the bachchans who are generally very boring as a gang!

MY LIST OF RGVfilms( not RAMUJI films)in order of liking them

1)SATYA

2)SARKAR RAJ

3)KSHANA KSHANAM and DEYYAM

4)ANTHAM

5)RANGEELA

6)Anaganaga oka roju

7) Raatri

8) JUNGLE and so on....

RAMUJIIIIIII RAMUJII GO AWAY... COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY...

Elavo arjunaa!

Had been to the preview of the film Dheemaku. Arjun's Dheemaku. I think two songs , the 'kannagudde' sng and the adnan sami song are nice. Abt the rerecording, not convinced at all.

Same happened with yuga. He scored a super song with 'hrudaya hrudaya'.. but the rr was messed up. NAM AREA , I am sure will be a break in the right direction for ARJUN.

I have known him as a friend for the past seven years or so and have seen him evolve as a music director. There were times when as soon as he used to compose something new , he used to make me listen to it.Almost every time, I used to say' let this be in ma film'. He used to smile in his own humble way.

He is genuinely talented not just as a music director should be, bt also cares a lot for good scripts and good cinema. The way he listens to a story, the way he reacts to it is all very spontaneous .

The 'bala krishna..balamurali krishna' rr part was the only interesting part of Dhimaku's rr though. And I would not blame ARJUN for the same.

Nowadays, he is all over the place like a rash. 'PATRE LOVES PADMA', 'BIRUGAALI', SLUMBAALA, NAM AREA, OMG!! I wonder how he works round the clock...non stop.

Nyways, the concern is ..I dont wanna c a burnout!

VIRAL BOSS!

was not keepin well all the time...the doc says do not go out for three or four more days...its the viral... so no blogs...

I make SOAP!

That is me with ma ace cinematographer Ashok Cashyap and my Choreographer Anand....
what A fun!!!!

If someone asks me what I do for a living.. next time, I will say 'I make soap'.

Some filmmakers have a problem with their film being called a 'product' as opposed to something more artistic or technical.

FILM MAKING IS LIKE SELLING SOAP. You make a film and you sell it. You make a soap cake and you sell it. The point here is... you cannot sell the idea of making a brand of soap to a customer just as you cannot sell the idea of making a film to the audience. If I say 'I will make that film...I will make this film...etc etc'... there is no point in it. YOU only have to make the film and then see if it works or not with the audience.

Many a time in the past, I have come across producers who have asked me for a narration of a film story . After a narration they would say 'its nice but will it be saleable?" My answer or at least ma thought then would be 'BOSS...how will u know if it is saleable or not unless you make the film?". So, I think the best producer is that guy who is willing to allow you to make the soap instead of asking how its fragrance would be or how long lasting it would be.

Today, as a result of some positive interest about the film... or the idea that the film has shaped up good , I meet a lot of people who are willing or showing interest in allowing me to make ma soap. So , now I have started making soap...! HOPE MA BRAND OF SOAP WORKS..

Is it real? Is it not?

This time when I was in Mysore shooting for NAOD , there was this particular scene that I was shooting with Pratap , Mandya Ramesh and Anish .

When the actors came on to the set ,to the same place where we had started off shooting their scenes it was not as if they had come there to act. Looking at them , to me it was almost as if these guys lived there and I came in to just check as to what these guys are doing.

The characters of Mandya Ramesh,Pratap and Anish are so etched in ma mind, i think twil take me a lifetime to get out of their lives. The feel of the area, the ease with which these guys acted out that scene ... all this gave me a feeling of IS IT REAL ? IS IT NOT?

Nyways, now to some freaky news...

this time while i was shooting , i was so disappointed that the scenes were all over and done with but there still was so much to say through these characters of NAM AREALONDINA. So, quickly I decided and came to the conclusion that we have to do a part 2 of the same film.

Soon, we should be announcing the PART 2 plan of the film. LET THESE CHARACTERS LIVE ON FOR EVER... WATCH OUT FOR NAOD PART 2

I am back!

Hi there ,
after one terrific and exciting schedule at mysore am done with the film shoot and back in bangi. This is a tired me posting a hi...