Veteran film personalities discuss changes the industry is going through, share trivia.
Did you know that film stars Kamal Haasan and Rajkumar made their debut almost together? By Kamal’s own admission, when he was shooting for Kalathur Kannamma in the early 50s, Rajkumar too was making his foray into filmdom at the adjoining studio of AVM in Chennai with Bedara Kannappa (Rajkumar’s debut). The film released in 1954, and a new star was born in the Kannada industry, who ruled for decades .
Haasan was speaking at a session on ‘Making of movie: The past, present and the future’, which he was chairing along with actors V Ravichandran, Shivarajkumar and Ramesh Aravind, on the concluding day of Media and Entertainment Conclave by FICCI.
Taking about the future of films, Haasan said the time has come to adopt new ways of filmmaking to suit the current generation that has newer way of film viewing, like handheld gadgets.
When he wanted to try DTH release for his film Vishwaroopam, Haasan said he lost the battle owing to some vested interests, but the fight would go on. He added that films need not run for months together to earn profits.
“You get to release a movie on 25 screens at a time and if it runs full house for a week or two, it still makes profits and also makes way for new releases that are vying for screens,” observed Haasan.
Ravichandran said films should be made to suit the taste of audience, instead of tagging them as ahead of times and making meaningless films that leave audience puzzled.
Aravind emphasised on the need to have love and romance in films and spoke about him playing a sacrificial hero in many triangular love stories that did well.
When Haasan was asked if love ends with marriage, the actor quipped: “Man is not complete without marriage, but after marriage he is finished... And, if he re-marries, he is completely finished.”
Haasan showered respect on Rajkumar’s eagerness to learn even after attaining stardom. It was the latter who launched the former’s first production, Raaja Paarvai, in the presence of Sivaji Ganesan and MGR, Haasan revealed.
Speaking on selecting a script, Haasan said it is like selecting a good film to watch. His silent comedy released in 1987, Pushpaka Vimana, is a classic case study that took more time to script even though the film had no dialogues, he said.
The challenge was to make the audience connect to the scenes and the objective of the movie was to create a situation where characters had no chance to speak to each other. On a lighter note, Haasan added that the scene in the film where he carries a gift box to the dump literally made it a perfect ‘motion picture’, leaving the audience in splits.
Haasan also insisted that the government and the film fraternity must create an environment to produce multi-lingual films that attract actors and filmmakers from other states. It will inturn make Kannada filmmakers turn into national filmmakers and will also make a mark on world cinema.
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