The film making has taken big UTurn down south at least. Few notables (which I have covered
so far) in this category are Lucia & UTurn from Kannda;
Kaka Muttai, Visarane & Joker from Tamil; Pelli Choopulu, Yevade
Subramaniam, Kshanam & Manamantha from Telugu and Drishyam almost all box
offices.
Each one is a gem in itself and changed the way of
film making down south making way for fresh talent and forcing established ones
to mend ways of commercial image & cinema. Tamil and Kannada industries are known for
experimenting quite often, I am excited to see the wave change in Telugu industry
where Ram Charan took Dhruva route taking a back seat for making space for story
and antagonist, hero & heroine met and lived happily ever after was not the
case in Jr. NTR’s Janata Garage and Nag limited himself to wheelchair for 2.38
hours as quadriplegic with support of Karthi (this role was turned down by Jr
NTR) in Oopiri, a French adaption of ‘The Untouchables”. Item & hero intro songs
are not mandatory, separate comedy track is no more compulsory at least for now
in most of the Telugu movies.
The stories of these film makers behind making these off
beat movies are equally fascinating.
Pawan Kumar (Lucia & UTurn) pulled off Lucia on first
ever Kannada crowd funding. UTurn was made on a real story of where a guy jumps
off 13th floor and emerges unhurt because his dead wife saves him
after her death (with daughter) in an road accident on Bangalore road owing to common
mistake people make to move road blocks.
Rakshit Shetty of Ulidavaru Kandanthe fame (English translation,
As seen by others) who admits that he used to work on his theatre/film projects
during his office hours, as he always managed to find couple of leisure hours
during 9-5 window, honest confession, is isn’t it? This movie makes you to form
your own climax basis different perspective of 4 characters you travel with during the film and leaves you unanswered of your own questions
Chandra Sekhar Yeleti worked on his Manamantha project for
good 3 years especially on tightening the screenplay (must be record time for a
Telugu director) to make a compelling climax at the airport and struggled to
find artists with no Telugu commercial film baggage to make this story
realistic.
Manikandan’s outstanding debut is all about aspiring story
of two kids to taste Pizza at the newly opened hut in the slum grounds, where
they used to play and steal eggs (their main source of protein) from crow nests
on the only tree, which is now cut down. Manikandan says, why we judge people
by appearance and colour, even we don’t spare animals & birds. Interesting
timing here to match idiotic comments of Tarun Vijay racism row: ‘We’ve south
India... we live with black people’. Always admire the beauty of parrot but now
crow….that makes the title “Kaka Muttai” (Crow Eggs), finally crow gets its
glamorous filmy touch and film won National award for Best Children’s Film of
2015.
Why should the parrots & white have all the Glory?
The story boards of these movies leaves me to recite a poem
of great Telugu poet Sri Sri (Srirangam Srinivasa Rao)
Kaadedi kavitakanarham kukkapilla, sabbu billa, aggi pulla (Nothing is inappropriate for a poem - a puppy, a bar of soap or a matchstick)....
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