BEHIND THE SCREEN
BEHIND THE SCREEN
Shankar, the director of the movie is an experienced director who gave many hits like KADALAN, JEANS, INDIAN(dubbed as HINDUSTAANI), MUDALVAN(remaked to Hindi as NAYAK). He is well known for his technical richness in the film with many specialties like computer graphics etc. Here in this movie he has made it much more rich by using different specialties for each song. He says that the casting of the film was the most difficult thing. He has casted all types of boys, fat slim, good looking, bad looking. He has given each of them different mannerisms. Like the hero Munna is very silent, Bob Gally is too stylish, Krishna is fat and plays drums on table, Juju is like an immatured, Kumar likes to be in good humour. All the boys have a style of lifting their both hands and making a peculiar noise(click here to see the scene). She has the mannerism of showing finger to guys. But we have made her rise the fore-finger instead of the middle one to avoid the scissors of censor, says the smiling Shankar. Comedian Vivek has acted in an important role. He is like a godfather to the Boys. As usual he keeps the audience laughing in many scenes. Senthil has acted in a special character of a "SADHU" who is always behind the free temple PRASADAM. About the message of the movie, he says "5 boys, one girl, all of them are brought up from different social and economic background. They are the guys of gen next. They all break the rules and come out of their houses. And in the process, they come to know their hidden talents and they make it to the top. They just wanted to come up by studying but time and situations doesn't allow them by sending them to jail, at last they realise that they have the talent and they can come up through that. Youth are powerful, the power can be used both positively or negatively, academically or talent wise. It's all about exploring yourself". He and producer A M Rathnam have struggled a lot to get the permission to shoot some important scenes of motorcycle chase at the Mount Road in Chennai. They had made the rehearsals for this scene in a road in the outskirts of the city. Mount road is the main commercial road of Chennai city so they made the shooting after 11pm till 4am. All the vehicles on the mount road were first cleared and the vehicles belonging t o the film unit arrived. They shop owners co-operated well by not shutting their shops even after 12pm to give a natural effect. Mr.Sujatha's dialogues are witty and powerful.
