As film writing is not taken seriously, there is a dearth of writers who can do this in the industry.” “Converting a novel to a screenplay is as difficult as, if not more difficult than writing a fresh script. It stays through the process of the development of the script, sometimes, even defining the look of the film.”
“Giving a title for a film, is like naming a child. “An actor is the most important person – he/she takes the character, hitherto envisaged on paper, forward, adding that little extra in the process.” They are opposites in terms of style and the way they operate, notwithstanding the fact that one works in the day and the other works at night!” “Both Ilayaraja and A.R.Rahman are brilliant composers, and I’m lucky to have worked with both of them. However, if the script is worked well, one can make movies without songs. Songs play many roles – they depict emotion, reach a peak or simply, give a pause in the story. While I have been trying to move towards making movies without songs, if you take away songs, my movies just won’t be the same. Hence, the Lankan situation worked better as a backdrop to the main story of the little girl.” “While ‘Roja’, ‘Bombay’ and ‘Dil Se’ were about issues that are very personal to us, ‘Kannathil Muthamittal’ had to have an outsider’s perspective. At the end of the week, I tore it all up.”
“For the first schedule of my first film, I had put together flow charts, budgets and cashflows for the project.
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