Some were asking makeshift boat and kayak operators to transport them as it was quite a challenge to walk through fully submerged footpaths and roads
I believe Varathan is a film made for all Malayalis so if it works here (Kerala) I feel it will work everywhere. I'm not tense. It's a movie that I feel people can associate very well with. It was shot there (in the UAE)- so I am excited to see what people think about the film there. More than anything I'm curious to see how people there will take to the film.
This is a story, which Amal (Neerad, director) had told me, during my first meeting with him 5-6 years back. It's been a story I have always wanted to do; I have always been excited about the idea of an outsider.
It's nothing like that. What makes a difference for me is the people I associate with, be it the directors, the writers, the cameramen or the technicians. when you keep interacting with such talent I don't think it will get repetitive. So there is no constant effort from my side. I just want to be excited about what I'm going to do or what I'm going to shoot. Nothing else matters to me.
No, I didn't even know that people know me that well. They know I'm a director's son and married to an actress. I don't think they know more about me. And it doesn't matter.. I'd like to believe that I worked my way up. I had no privilege of being a director's son. A lot of films (I did for family) didn't work for me. Things took its time to fall into place. I wasn't given any prerogatives.
Just look around. There are many star kids or directors' kids who haven't made it yet. They are still struggling. so I think it is pointless. I don't know how Bollywood works, to be honest, but from what I know, there is nothing like that here (Malayalam film industry). Unless you have a point to say, I don't think you will be heard. If you have a point, you will be heard.
I believe in the basic goodness of human beings. The rest of it is my freedom to narrate a story. That's it. It is no reflection on any human I have met. I believe in the basic goodness of people. It's a combination of all these that make someone human.
Even when I started my career I had said in my interviews that what is important is not actors coming up and acting, it's directors and writers wanting to try different actors. If all the directors decide to do films with those who are stars or those who do minimum business, then it will be difficult.
No (emphatic). The Malayalam Bangalore Days can go play there. What's the point of remaking a movie, I really don't understand. I don't see the point. a film that was made very well, appreciated all over the country and now it has to be made in a different language to be sold there? It doesn't make sense.
No. Not really. I'm honestly looking forward to scripts than roles. I read a script... it's not that I work from a character. I work from an idea. The character actually falls into place. It's a process. It doesn't initiate with a character. The initial idea is always the thought.
I have not consciously made any effort. It is all very smooth and beautiful. I have never had this thought process that I have to do all this to make this function. No. It has been happening very organically and smoothly without any effort from my end. And I don't know if Nazriya (laughs) is making a lot of effort. It is very smooth. There are no efforts.
Nazriya is very effortless. This is from the films that I have seen of her on the screen... I think she has this way of making it look very convincing without putting in any effort. It looks as if it is very easy to perform.
I don't consciously make any decisions in life. This is the way I am. I've never said, I want my life this way or I want to handle my profile this way, no. This is how I function. I wouldn't change for anyone and I wouldn't want anyone to change me. If we can collaborate this way, as we are, then it's brilliant.
Ambica Sachin
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