Filmmakers are always looking for ways to create exciting and dramatic moods to heighten the drama of a movie.One of the most effective and available tools we have at our disposal is the tried and true Rain Sequence. Filming a rain sequence here at India is one of the daunting […]
பிரபஞ்சத்துடன் போட்டியில்லை (Painting : Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso, 1932) கடந்தகாலம், நிகழ்காலம், எதிர்காலம் எனும் மூன்று காலங்களையும், அதில் தோன்றும் வெளியினையும் அதில் நிகழும் நிகழ்வுகளுக்குமெல்லாம் சேர்த்து நாம் கொடுக்கும் பெயரே பிரபஞ்சம். ஒரு மிக மெல்லிய பரப்பினைகொண்ட மலரின் இதழை இந்த பிரபஞ்சம் படைக்கின்றது, ஒரு மாபெரும் நீர்விழ்ச்சியையும் இது படைக்கின்றது, சூரியனைபோன்று 50,000 மடங்கு பெரியதொரு நட்சத்திரத்தையும் அது […]
Munnariyippu Silence has answers. Every time my phone rings at wee hours of a day I will be sure my Dad (Director Mahendran) would have watched some amazing movie and would want to speak to the Director immediately and appreciate him. This time it was the Malayalam movie Munnariyippu, directed […]
In between lines… Real life conversations can never become Movie Dialogues…its altogether a different ball game. I have been always fascinated by movie dialogues, especially the magical moment when you actually forget that you are watching a movie and the actor is just rendering the lines of a writer, yet […]
A Magician named Sanjay Loknath. When we decided to make Aanivaer, rumors spread that we were doing a movie about LTTE, that we were doing a movie for LTTE. Whatever it was, I was starting to get calls from many big names wanting to be part of Aanivaer, as they […]
I remember walking out of Bandaranaike Airport in Srilanka in 2005 for the first time. It was like dragging me from 2005 to 1945. Looking around everywhere I found yellow striped ribbons warning me about landmine. The sight of masked Srilankan army men waving their guns to stop our car […]
