See a two minute, 40 second trailer of M3V on TV and the internet www.indiaglitz.com seems like a picture of a movie that could break new grounds in Kollywood. The movie is the debut attempt of director KSG, who has worked as an assistant to Maniratnam and P C Sreeram.
"I'd like to wear a red shirt, complement it with mild Polo (perfume) to sit in a restaurant with a blue theme," he says as he settles down to an interview at The Park. In his own words, it's an extension of this juxtaposition that he has tried in his first movie, that he calls Tamil cinema's first metro movie: doing a collage of conventional beliefs and contemporary ideas.
And that is what M3V is all about.
"A metro movie breaks the shackles of stereotype. M3V is a metro movie because it shows life in a city's perspective: a man can do what's considered effeminate like wanting to tutor his children after work, and a women transcend barriers generally imposed on her."
Now for how it all began: To cut a long story short, KSG has been a businessman (selling jeans and TT balls), once owned India's first Mexican Restaurant (Taco Tavern), then ran an ice-cream parlour. It was then that one of the parlour's regulars, PC Sreeram saw the spark in him and asked him to be an Assistant Director in Meera.
Several ad films and short films later, KSG is now ready with his first Tamil feature film, M3V. Sathyajit, a professional photographer in real life, and Keevna, a doctor in London, are the lead pair and will debut in the movie. But, besides them, there will be 98 other characters in the film, all of who are new faces.
"The movie will be new not just in terms of the story or screenplay .
I've introduced 100 new faces, all of whom will play substantial roles," he reveals, adding that he reduces it to 100 though he originally wanted 150 characters. "These are people who I've chosen myself: They are people I saw and instantly realised that I had a role for them to enact," he says.
In a bid to substantiate it, he recalls how the terrorists who featured in the movie Roja (for which he was an Assistant Director) were actually customers to his ice cream parlour, whom he persuaded to act.
M3V will have music by Aslam Mustafa, art by Thottadharani and cinematography by Fowzia Fathima. The shooting is complete but the movie will be ready for a release in the next couple of months. "It's for an urban audience, no doubt, and there will be a few English dialogues. There is an English song and a Hindi song to emphasise on the universal feel of the movie," he adds.
But will urbanizing the film alienate it to the B and C –centre audiences?
"The idea is intelligent, the emotion is universal. It's something everyone can relate to, when understood" he sums it up.
Is the discerning audience ready?
Courtesy: The New Indian Express
"I'd like to wear a red shirt, complement it with mild Polo (perfume) to sit in a restaurant with a blue theme," he says as he settles down to an interview at The Park. In his own words, it's an extension of this juxtaposition that he has tried in his first movie, that he calls Tamil cinema's first metro movie: doing a collage of conventional beliefs and contemporary ideas.
And that is what M3V is all about.
"A metro movie breaks the shackles of stereotype. M3V is a metro movie because it shows life in a city's perspective: a man can do what's considered effeminate like wanting to tutor his children after work, and a women transcend barriers generally imposed on her."
Now for how it all began: To cut a long story short, KSG has been a businessman (selling jeans and TT balls), once owned India's first Mexican Restaurant (Taco Tavern), then ran an ice-cream parlour. It was then that one of the parlour's regulars, PC Sreeram saw the spark in him and asked him to be an Assistant Director in Meera.
Several ad films and short films later, KSG is now ready with his first Tamil feature film, M3V. Sathyajit, a professional photographer in real life, and Keevna, a doctor in London, are the lead pair and will debut in the movie. But, besides them, there will be 98 other characters in the film, all of who are new faces.
"The movie will be new not just in terms of the story or screenplay .
I've introduced 100 new faces, all of whom will play substantial roles," he reveals, adding that he reduces it to 100 though he originally wanted 150 characters. "These are people who I've chosen myself: They are people I saw and instantly realised that I had a role for them to enact," he says.
In a bid to substantiate it, he recalls how the terrorists who featured in the movie Roja (for which he was an Assistant Director) were actually customers to his ice cream parlour, whom he persuaded to act.
M3V will have music by Aslam Mustafa, art by Thottadharani and cinematography by Fowzia Fathima. The shooting is complete but the movie will be ready for a release in the next couple of months. "It's for an urban audience, no doubt, and there will be a few English dialogues. There is an English song and a Hindi song to emphasise on the universal feel of the movie," he adds.
But will urbanizing the film alienate it to the B and C –centre audiences?
"The idea is intelligent, the emotion is universal. It's something everyone can relate to, when understood" he sums it up.
Is the discerning audience ready?
Courtesy: The New Indian Express
1 comment:
Hi Vivek,
If you are interested, please check out the movie's website
http://www.m3v.asia
Please tell all your friends!
This movie is gonna rock!
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