Kanyaamani kicks it off on Radiocity today. The song was played on Radiocity an hour ago..and people who listened to it gave me some gud news..they loved it!
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
a blog post abt nothing!!
Festival time..so a little blog post abt nothing...I thought. Just a little flashback about the movie NAM AREALONDINA...
Some five years ago ..when I was busy making my short films and sending them to festivals and the likes....when I was busy editing a short film of mine...suddenly the 'idea' of doing a film like NAM AREALONDINA came to my mind....
The film ofcourse had no name yet..and so I had called it a 'short film about love'...!!
I grabbed the nearest piece of paper lying in my dirty studio and scribbled the oneliner of the film ... The idea haunted me and so I thought I will write down the opening scene of the film.
I did it. That's it..! I was sure I was to make a film of it one day. Time passed by...as in.. a couple of years passed by before ...
I was standing outside the set of a tv serial I was acting in..and suddenly this thought came back to me... I was like....'shit..! What happened to that idea?' I started building up a story line to the whole thing but nothing was working out. That night... when at home..as a result of the innumerable conversations about love that were happening at the set... I actually thought of ...'why do people fall in love?" Various people for various reasons' I told myself...
I started writing down incidents about this guy and this girl who fall in love and all hell breaks loose...! So...slowly...the script was taking shape...finally one day...
I actually closed the 'book' I was scribbling in saying' ready to shoot'!!
That was it!. I woke up the next day and decided to make a short film about the same which later i planned to make a movie of... I wanted to get people interested in the project. I asked a couple of friends of mine... who were actors too to act in my film for free and they kindly obliged. I made it very clear to them that if I would make a film of the same..they might even not be in it. They smiled and agreed... they probably thought this guy would never make one!!
Nyways..soon we started shooting for the short film and twas great fun.
Then I hired ( for free) a good friend's very well equipped editing studio and sat down to edit that film... believe me .. I had ended up making a one and half an hour long film.
One of those days I called ARJUN home and we sat down to see the film together. He liked it..so much that he said I will do the rr etc for it. There goes.. me and him at my place...for a week and a half...we did the rr for that movie and that was the time he actually composed a couple of songs for the movie to be done too. SO NICE OF HIM..
After the movie was ready I showed it to my dear friend Nagendra Jois and he loved it. He agreed to produce it ........
And the ride began....! I mean the roller coaster began....!
More about the roller coaster in the next post...
Some five years ago ..when I was busy making my short films and sending them to festivals and the likes....when I was busy editing a short film of mine...suddenly the 'idea' of doing a film like NAM AREALONDINA came to my mind....
The film ofcourse had no name yet..and so I had called it a 'short film about love'...!!
I grabbed the nearest piece of paper lying in my dirty studio and scribbled the oneliner of the film ... The idea haunted me and so I thought I will write down the opening scene of the film.
I did it. That's it..! I was sure I was to make a film of it one day. Time passed by...as in.. a couple of years passed by before ...
I was standing outside the set of a tv serial I was acting in..and suddenly this thought came back to me... I was like....'shit..! What happened to that idea?' I started building up a story line to the whole thing but nothing was working out. That night... when at home..as a result of the innumerable conversations about love that were happening at the set... I actually thought of ...'why do people fall in love?" Various people for various reasons' I told myself...
I started writing down incidents about this guy and this girl who fall in love and all hell breaks loose...! So...slowly...the script was taking shape...finally one day...
I actually closed the 'book' I was scribbling in saying' ready to shoot'!!
That was it!. I woke up the next day and decided to make a short film about the same which later i planned to make a movie of... I wanted to get people interested in the project. I asked a couple of friends of mine... who were actors too to act in my film for free and they kindly obliged. I made it very clear to them that if I would make a film of the same..they might even not be in it. They smiled and agreed... they probably thought this guy would never make one!!
Nyways..soon we started shooting for the short film and twas great fun.
Then I hired ( for free) a good friend's very well equipped editing studio and sat down to edit that film... believe me .. I had ended up making a one and half an hour long film.
One of those days I called ARJUN home and we sat down to see the film together. He liked it..so much that he said I will do the rr etc for it. There goes.. me and him at my place...for a week and a half...we did the rr for that movie and that was the time he actually composed a couple of songs for the movie to be done too. SO NICE OF HIM..
After the movie was ready I showed it to my dear friend Nagendra Jois and he loved it. He agreed to produce it ........
And the ride began....! I mean the roller coaster began....!
More about the roller coaster in the next post...
Monday, October 27, 2008
about the ad..and lot more
Thanks Ranga...for the feedback..
actually... you are right... the colour was a lot more faded in print than we thought it wud be...
The print of newspaper caters to different colour schemes and not to what we do ..
we tried to bring about NAOD's textures in that ad... and experimented with the ad design..
after all I do have an 'advertising' background that makes my ads look very 'product' based..
NOW ITS TIME FOR CINEMA ADS...
M too fussy about the design and texture and all that...now its time to relax and make it more grand... step by step...colour too will increase....
ha ha...u must think u r speaking to a maverick..!!
Actually we were supposed to put something else there...but this ad was a last minute thingy...but i liked the spunk...we are trying to portray the various shades of the movie through it all...
And hey..today....I had the first audience to my movie...in the studio... my friend who is a journo...thankfully... I passed...
Just sharing the excitement..
love
aravind
actually... you are right... the colour was a lot more faded in print than we thought it wud be...
The print of newspaper caters to different colour schemes and not to what we do ..
we tried to bring about NAOD's textures in that ad... and experimented with the ad design..
after all I do have an 'advertising' background that makes my ads look very 'product' based..
NOW ITS TIME FOR CINEMA ADS...
M too fussy about the design and texture and all that...now its time to relax and make it more grand... step by step...colour too will increase....
ha ha...u must think u r speaking to a maverick..!!
Actually we were supposed to put something else there...but this ad was a last minute thingy...but i liked the spunk...we are trying to portray the various shades of the movie through it all...
And hey..today....I had the first audience to my movie...in the studio... my friend who is a journo...thankfully... I passed...
Just sharing the excitement..
love
aravind
Sunday, October 26, 2008
a small something I remembered!
Twas raining like hell in chennai where we were doing the final mastering of naod's audio some time back... I just wanted to get done with it and take back the audio outta there as soon as possible and move on!!Twas kinda deadline for me too.... and amidst all this chennai confusion...one happy memory for me was meeting this guy SATYA --who mixed the audio...
There was a particular style for every song that we had planned out...in the way it should sound..and while we were thinking abt what should be heard how...this guy asked me...
'What is the colour template in which u are shooting or have shot the song?" Why ? I asked.
He so clearly explained to me that based on the colour of my songs..he would mix and add filters...to the audio... the sound has to go with the colour of the visual ' he said.SO TRUE...
There was a particular style for every song that we had planned out...in the way it should sound..and while we were thinking abt what should be heard how...this guy asked me...
'What is the colour template in which u are shooting or have shot the song?" Why ? I asked.
He so clearly explained to me that based on the colour of my songs..he would mix and add filters...to the audio... the sound has to go with the colour of the visual ' he said.SO TRUE...
Saturday, October 25, 2008
REBELLION!
In the process of making the film....you meet a lot of people who offer to work with you...in whatever departments... Here ...i find two categories...the selfless lot and the selfish lot.
The selfless lot is that lot that really does not boast about its capabalities....about what it knows..what is understands... The selfless lot just mingles with the crowd and does its job.
It is wonderful to work with the selfless lot..
Sometimes...in a team you end up meeting people who really are there to only be seen in photographs...and try and take credit for things they have not done and can never do.
It is very frustrating when u come across such people. It is horrible how they know when the still photographer is clicking away so that they can be there and be seen...
....Now back to the topic....
EGO ...PRIDE ART AND COMMERCE.... and abt all this...
The point I was trying to make in the previous post was.... when a painter or a singer paints and sings for money..for his daily bread...its fine... the work he does still pure!
The problem is...some guys think that their art and capabilities are so great that they spend most of their lives undermining the quality of other art... !This is pride in art..this can be identified very easily....you can spot the farce they try and show! Like... for example... a Karan johar's film or a Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film would always try and 'behave' in a certain farcical manner...like that stupid film BLACK or KUCH KUCH HOTA HAIN!!
There is pride in their work.. ! And that pride I detest. ATTITUDE is born more out of rebellion..
NAOD 's attitude too perhaps in a way was born out of rebellion!
The selfless lot is that lot that really does not boast about its capabalities....about what it knows..what is understands... The selfless lot just mingles with the crowd and does its job.
It is wonderful to work with the selfless lot..
Sometimes...in a team you end up meeting people who really are there to only be seen in photographs...and try and take credit for things they have not done and can never do.
It is very frustrating when u come across such people. It is horrible how they know when the still photographer is clicking away so that they can be there and be seen...
....Now back to the topic....
EGO ...PRIDE ART AND COMMERCE.... and abt all this...
The point I was trying to make in the previous post was.... when a painter or a singer paints and sings for money..for his daily bread...its fine... the work he does still pure!
The problem is...some guys think that their art and capabilities are so great that they spend most of their lives undermining the quality of other art... !This is pride in art..this can be identified very easily....you can spot the farce they try and show! Like... for example... a Karan johar's film or a Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film would always try and 'behave' in a certain farcical manner...like that stupid film BLACK or KUCH KUCH HOTA HAIN!!
There is pride in their work.. ! And that pride I detest. ATTITUDE is born more out of rebellion..
NAOD 's attitude too perhaps in a way was born out of rebellion!
ha ha ha...!
OMG!! CANNOT STOP LAUGHING .... thanks Shyam for sendin me dat super cool dance video...
Hey all...please do check out this link and m sure u will all have a great life ahead...because...life long naguvantha acting maadidaane ee paapi..!
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=LYUBL4cWSO8
That's art! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!.... IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES... Sometimes interesting..sometimes inspiring..sometimes frightening...!
Well What is art ? I wonder. What is commercialisation of art? Why is that what we create becomes so important that we forget basic human qualities of humility and acceptance?
ART is an artiste's identity...I understand...but still...I think an artiste is a human being first with faculties of logic...reasoning and point of view... His logic...his dream...his point of view only gets converted into something later....
WE ARE PROUD OF THE FACT THAT WE CAN PAINT BETTER..OR WRITE BETTER OR SING BETTER OR DANCE BETTER than someone else and we are happy about it! We price ourselves so high then that the very art that made us kills us!! That is commercialisation of art.
A not so well painted calendar figure of LORD SRI RAMA is painted for a purpose. For a calendar or for a photo frame. That is not commercialisation of art. Art for the sake of money is fine..but art that has ego and pride embedded either in paint or in text or in notes of a song...is true commercialisation of art and that is what we must protest!!
Hey all...please do check out this link and m sure u will all have a great life ahead...because...life long naguvantha acting maadidaane ee paapi..!
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=LYUBL4cWSO8
That's art! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!.... IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES... Sometimes interesting..sometimes inspiring..sometimes frightening...!
Well What is art ? I wonder. What is commercialisation of art? Why is that what we create becomes so important that we forget basic human qualities of humility and acceptance?
ART is an artiste's identity...I understand...but still...I think an artiste is a human being first with faculties of logic...reasoning and point of view... His logic...his dream...his point of view only gets converted into something later....
WE ARE PROUD OF THE FACT THAT WE CAN PAINT BETTER..OR WRITE BETTER OR SING BETTER OR DANCE BETTER than someone else and we are happy about it! We price ourselves so high then that the very art that made us kills us!! That is commercialisation of art.
A not so well painted calendar figure of LORD SRI RAMA is painted for a purpose. For a calendar or for a photo frame. That is not commercialisation of art. Art for the sake of money is fine..but art that has ego and pride embedded either in paint or in text or in notes of a song...is true commercialisation of art and that is what we must protest!!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
ON THE WAY BACK...
Sterdy as i travelled the way back from chennai...there was a strange feeling that took over me.
It was as if...I had lost something. Some kind of a guilt .Of having given up something I loved for long. There was vacuum..... Reason... the songs are all done with and I was listening to the final version at an audience level. After having gone through the multi hued processes of visualising ...dreaming.... some more dreaming and some more planning .... finally the music of NAOD was at an ear's distance. ...... But the process was sadly over.
It had been an exciting ride thinking about that lyric and this phrase and that pitch and this voice....running around like mad to choose voices that were tailor made for the songs.... twas fun.
And every time there was a new feel and touch added to the songs..there was happiness. In all of us. The cast and the crew of NAOD. Now..we will all be listeners ..! Its tough to sit back n chil but anyways that is the fun of art...its not so much how we did it...it more abt what we did!
So..we are all now ON THE WAY BACK TO BECOME AUDIENCES.
JOINING U GUYS
ARAVIND KAUSHIK
It was as if...I had lost something. Some kind of a guilt .Of having given up something I loved for long. There was vacuum..... Reason... the songs are all done with and I was listening to the final version at an audience level. After having gone through the multi hued processes of visualising ...dreaming.... some more dreaming and some more planning .... finally the music of NAOD was at an ear's distance. ...... But the process was sadly over.
It had been an exciting ride thinking about that lyric and this phrase and that pitch and this voice....running around like mad to choose voices that were tailor made for the songs.... twas fun.
And every time there was a new feel and touch added to the songs..there was happiness. In all of us. The cast and the crew of NAOD. Now..we will all be listeners ..! Its tough to sit back n chil but anyways that is the fun of art...its not so much how we did it...it more abt what we did!
So..we are all now ON THE WAY BACK TO BECOME AUDIENCES.
JOINING U GUYS
ARAVIND KAUSHIK
new sound new content
hosa soundu...hosa contentu eradannu itkondu audio ready maadi just landed at bangalore . Tom...off to akshaya audio to dcide the audio release date and all other publicity plans...
GUYS...(idu hotte ursakkalla saar...kutoohala keralisakke ) I m saying... the album must become a must buy !
Rerecording has also kicked off full speed.....HAPPY AS CAN BE!
Now..I gotta catch up on sleep ...see u guys on the other side of the morning.
Meanwhile...m glad abt the concern showed by the blog readers abt the audio...tis after all your film guys!SO B WITH US AND EXPECT US TO BE QUALITATIVE ALL THE WHILE
LOVE
ARAVIND
GUYS...(idu hotte ursakkalla saar...kutoohala keralisakke ) I m saying... the album must become a must buy !
Rerecording has also kicked off full speed.....HAPPY AS CAN BE!
Now..I gotta catch up on sleep ...see u guys on the other side of the morning.
Meanwhile...m glad abt the concern showed by the blog readers abt the audio...tis after all your film guys!SO B WITH US AND EXPECT US TO BE QUALITATIVE ALL THE WHILE
LOVE
ARAVIND
Saturday, October 18, 2008
jamaaise ...jummenno speedalli...
jamaaise ..jummenno speedali...
zindagi....joragi joshalli...
sadagara...seri swara swara...
kaleyuvaaa.. dinavellaa ide taraaa....
jamaaise.......!
The bike song of NAM!...
This is my pep up song for now!... Soon..It wil be the pep up song for hoardes of music lovers.....waiting!
zindagi....joragi joshalli...
sadagara...seri swara swara...
kaleyuvaaa.. dinavellaa ide taraaa....
jamaaise.......!
The bike song of NAM!...
This is my pep up song for now!... Soon..It wil be the pep up song for hoardes of music lovers.....waiting!
ahaa enthaa breaku!!
abba...! finally...i have a relatively easier morning. So..took some time off to make ma presence felt here...
Its been hectic with the dubbing rounding off ...from tomoro re recording begins at chennai...
today being a sunday...everyone deserved a mini break. SO.....its coffee time now
Its been hectic with the dubbing rounding off ...from tomoro re recording begins at chennai...
today being a sunday...everyone deserved a mini break. SO.....its coffee time now
Monday, October 13, 2008
another super comment abt the trailer
Another low grade director who thinks showing blood is coolyavaga buddhi kalitaro namma jana(directors)
HATS OFF TO THIS GUY TOO!
GOD BLESS HIS NON VIOLENT SOUL!
HATS OFF TO THIS GUY TOO!
GOD BLESS HIS NON VIOLENT SOUL!
trailer 2 and what fun!!
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=dAq-PXKTXeY
this is the link to the second trailer of naod on youtube. Please do check the same guys!
''
wtf ?? these fellas cant even show violence properly, tom and jerry is only much better in this regard, this guy punched him ante, the blood spreads on the ceiling in a pancake...''
Til now the best comment i got for the trailer. HATS OFF TO THE DISASTER WHO WROTE THIS SANTHOSH!!
this is the link to the second trailer of naod on youtube. Please do check the same guys!
''
wtf ?? these fellas cant even show violence properly, tom and jerry is only much better in this regard, this guy punched him ante, the blood spreads on the ceiling in a pancake...''
Til now the best comment i got for the trailer. HATS OFF TO THE DISASTER WHO WROTE THIS SANTHOSH!!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Hi all...
Not gettin enuf time for bloggin because of the late nights... nywayz....watch out for the trailer today ...on the net today for sure...
enjoy
love
aravind kaushik
enjoy
love
aravind kaushik
Thursday, October 9, 2008
more on audio
premji amaran in nannusire.... 'sanje beachinalli' awesome track!!
devishri prasad in 'sangama'.... super title track ... nice sound on 'hey mr.balu'
good ol arjun is rocking with slum bala ...heard one track from birugaali.. its awesome too...!
harikrishna is a lil on the whackier side with navagraha though not really great!!
nice development on the audio front .
Though the trend i feel started with nenapirali ...followed by mungaaru male and then gaalipaata... there was not too much of experimenting there. It was plain and simple singing and lyric and nice tune that mattered then.
Now ...it is multilayered. MUSIC is three dimensional said my friend. SO TRUE.
FILM Music is not just about thananaana and rururu... and a tune. Its more about creating an environment that gives u the feed of the feel intended...right arrangement ...right tone for the right song.... all this is happening now with these guys..and no wonder people are receiving it.
Great example for this is AR saab. The ever fresh AR saab. Heard the song 'taxi taxi' from a film called 'sakkara..somethin'. GREAT TRACK...
Right now...back to sanje beachinalli...
ROCK ON. KANNADA AUDIO
devishri prasad in 'sangama'.... super title track ... nice sound on 'hey mr.balu'
good ol arjun is rocking with slum bala ...heard one track from birugaali.. its awesome too...!
harikrishna is a lil on the whackier side with navagraha though not really great!!
nice development on the audio front .
Though the trend i feel started with nenapirali ...followed by mungaaru male and then gaalipaata... there was not too much of experimenting there. It was plain and simple singing and lyric and nice tune that mattered then.
Now ...it is multilayered. MUSIC is three dimensional said my friend. SO TRUE.
FILM Music is not just about thananaana and rururu... and a tune. Its more about creating an environment that gives u the feed of the feel intended...right arrangement ...right tone for the right song.... all this is happening now with these guys..and no wonder people are receiving it.
Great example for this is AR saab. The ever fresh AR saab. Heard the song 'taxi taxi' from a film called 'sakkara..somethin'. GREAT TRACK...
Right now...back to sanje beachinalli...
ROCK ON. KANNADA AUDIO
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
festival holiday!
Hmm....nice break today... widout much work to do..! Sterdy was at Santhosh's place doing the audio cd design...and the stills inside ......! Shaping up cool..
I still remember those audio casette covers of films like BOMBAY, ROJA, SHIVA...GEETAJNALI... so beautifully designed to carry the feel of the film.
I think NAM AREA's audio cd design too speaks volumes abt the attitude of the film. ...Sure people will like it. ART LOVERS ..at least!!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII......... ! SORRY GUYS.....WAS OUT OF TOWN FINALISING AUDIO...
24TH OF THIS MONTH IS THE AUDIO RELEASE..SO DOING LOTS OF PUBLIICITY MATERIAL...!
AND ....YA... CHEK OUT TODAY'S UDAYAVANI...
24TH OF THIS MONTH IS THE AUDIO RELEASE..SO DOING LOTS OF PUBLIICITY MATERIAL...!
AND ....YA... CHEK OUT TODAY'S UDAYAVANI...
Thursday, October 2, 2008
teppa saagali..munde hogali..
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