I am doing films for my audience, the fourth wall. Is he confident about the success of Ippadai Vellum? He smiles. What I had observed then is helping me in a big way.” “I used to write down everything I liked and disliked in a film. The director’s love for cinema stems from all the films he watched as a boy. It’s an important sequence in the film,” he adds. For this shot, she drove the bus with 200 passengers.
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“She learned how to drive a bus in Chennai and we rehearsed it on the roads of Adyar and Besant Nagar. That’s really a compliment, and I’ll cherish it always.” The actress had to drive a bus from the Tiruvannamalai bus depot.
“Though she has done more than 1,000 films, she was thrilled by this role. Gaurav evinces excitement over Radikaa’s character, a bus driver. In any case, that’s not the heroism of today,” he says. My hero won’t resort to beating up people to solve problems. “In the last 110 years, more than one and a half lakh films have been released. While most filmmakers often talk about the novelty of their upcoming film, Gaurav is candid in saying that given the number of films we make every year, it’s impossible to come up with a new idea.
It is important that this film also be received as well.” “Thoonga Nagaram and Sigaram Thodu were both also critically-acclaimed. The pressure was not so much on telling an interesting story as it was in trying to please both audiences and critics. I don’t think anybody else could have done justice to the writing,” he says. “I was particular that I write the story and dialogues too. The script took the director a year and a half to write. Though all the characters are presented as serious people, whatever they do on screen will end up making you laugh!” So, will Ippadai Vellum be an edge-of-the-seat thriller? “There’s a popular opinion in Tamil cinema that a thriller cannot have comedy portions. The film will speak for itself,” he says. “Directors have so far got him saying lines like, ‘Vaanga maapla, ponga maapla’, but I’ve given him a makeover.
“It’s an urban, subtle role for Udhay, something he hasn’t done before.”Įven Soori, the director says, has been given a makeover. The protagonist, he says, believes that any problem can be solved with the application of intelligence.
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Both the male and the female lead characters, played by Udhayanidhi and Manjima, are software engineers. I didn’t choose him to be a hero,” he smiles. Gaurav cast Udhayanidhi Stalin as he felt that the actor would be apt for the lead character. I usually don’t write scripts bearing a hero’s image in mind,” he says. “But I am going to present Ippadai Vellum in a different way and that was the only challenge. As is evident from his filmography so far, he’s a big fan of thrillers. After Thoonga Nagaram and Sigaram Thodu, Gaurav Narayanan returns with Ippadai Vellum starring Udhayanidhi Stalin.
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