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2009/2/18 My reactions to reactions1. Hi Ramu what is your IQ?
Ans: More than you. 2. Do you make movies to get laid?
Ans: Ya very much like you lay down and do nothing. 3. I am waiting for a post from you on women and their side effects.
Ans: For me they are the main effect. 4. I read your blog to have fun.
Ans: I write for the same. 5. How in and what sense you create rules for yourself?
Ans: I don’t create or follow rules. I just flow with the current which primarily originates from me. 6. Your weird camera angles give me a headache.
Ans: And you various other observations on me gave me a bore-ache. 7. In what areas did you evolve as a filmmaker since your first movie?
Ans: I don’t know about evolvement but I am sure having more fun. 8. Can’t a man live for himself?
Ans: I recommend you to read an article “Comprachios” in Ayn Rand’s collection of essays called “The Virtue of Selfishness”. 9. Do you enjoy your blog?
Ans: Yes I do and I also get highly educated on how many types of weirdos are out there apart from me. It also amazes me that so many people take me seriously when it is so obvious that I am just joking. 10. Do you feel affected by the comments and opinions every tom dick and harry seems to have on you and your work?
Ans: Well, I don’t get affected but I sure take them seriously for whatever they are worth, i.e, to laugh at, to ridicule, to be amazed, to practice, to get educated and to enrich myself in every which way. I have learnt the hard way that ignoring small fry can be many times harmful. “Of many a strong structure’s ruin raindrops and weeds have been the cause” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus spake Zarathustra) 2009/2/14 The “AGYAAT” Jungle
I always believed that a location in a film should be treated like a character. In the right context and rightly composed you will almost feel as if the location is alive and will have a recall value long after you have seen the film. A few examples that I can give is the Sarkar house and the Bhoot apartment. The house in which I shot Sarkar is now referred to as the Sarkar house by people in the industry. Many films have been shot at that location before and since but it comes to life only in Sarkar and that’s because of the context it’s been put into. I wanted to capture an emotional aspect of the feeling when we look at the house of a man towards whom we have awe in our hearts. So it’s really the feeling which is being captured with a combination of the composition, background score and its placement in the edit.
Similarly in Bhoot the apartment and its building became synonymous with Manjit the ghost. Repeatedly using the same angles and compositions in that apartment created an effect of a character coming in to the film again and again. Also by making the geography of the apartment very clear to the audience I created an effect of the viewer feeling that he himself is living there. The effect of the Bhoot apartment was to the extent that till today 6 years after its release I am told that nobody lives there and the owner of the apartment just uses that space to store some old furniture. Very few films give this much importance to locations and hence we rarely remember locations in films. The first time I felt this impact was in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”. The house in Psycho looks as sinister as the killer and this is not because of its architecture but because of the context in which it has been put into.
Coming to the jungle in which I shot “Agyaat”, I have seen personally quite a few jungles in India, like Ranthambore, Madumalai, Wynad and also in Malaysia and Bangkok not to mention countless other jungles on video ranging from Indonesia to Brazil.
But when I set my eyes on the Sigiriya jungle in Sri Lanka, it took my breath away with its sheer character. One might say a jungle is a jungle but then you have not seen the Sigiriya forest. It’s both enchanting and terrifying at the same time. Every tree of it looks like it’s got a story to it and hiding something beneath it just waiting to pounce on you. For the subject matter of “Agyaat” which is about a set of people trapped in a jungle and something out there killing them one by one I couldn’t even have dreamt of finding a location anywhere as incredible as Sigiriya, especially since I had no intention of showing the entity which is creating the terror. It is imperative that the jungle substitutes for the entity which is killing them. As a director I have never been more thrilled on a location shoot than in Agyaat and that is thanks to the Sigiriya jungle.
I am putting some stills from the film here and also some video footage just to give you an idea of how frighteningly sexy the Sigiriya Black Jungle looks.
2009/2/5 My reactions to reactions1. What is it about women that attracts you so much to them? 2. If say, films never existed, what else would you be? 3. Why not do a film on your philosophy? 4. How did the idea of the way Mallik kills Saeed and Anees in Company in the car come? 5. Where is your Factory? 6. How was the scene of threatening the music director shot in Satya? Only when we see the spark near the van indicating gun fire and the window cracking with the bullet do we realize that the person who is talking is actually talking from the van. It was very necessary for that to be taken in a single shot as otherwise it couldn’t have communicated the vulnerability of the music director. Also by the time the gun fires one has seen the frame for a long enough time that they will take it for granted and hence will get a jolt when the gun fires. Also the angle of the camera creates an effect as if the viewer is inside the room almost in the line of fire. Technical aspect: The shot was actually taken in a perfect co-ordinated timing with a gun firing a dummy bullet from the van and at the same time the action director Allan Amin hiding behind the window on a slightly lower level hitting the glass with a stone from a catapult. 7. If you don’t believe in marriage why did you get married? 8. If I had enough money I would have given it to you to make Aag again. 9. I couldn’t read Nietzsche’s Zarathustra beyond 4 pages. 10. It was very intelligent of you to shoot that Anupam Kher’s death scene by already placing a bullet mark on his head and diverting our attention to the guy in the back. 11. Why always reactions? Heard of proactiveness? 12. What’s your view on piracy? Would you want to curb it? 13. You are a good for nothing bum. 14. What in your view is best between imaginative and real world? 15. Why didn’t you get any Padma award till now (Padmasri or Padmabhushan)? 16. My girl friend says she loves your katha-kali eyes and loves your intelligence too. 17. It is your love for your work which will lead you to success – Albert Einstein. 18. Marriage is an understanding between two people. Mind is understanding oneself. |
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