Plans for a mega wedding
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Ravichandran always dreams big. He now has plans of a film involving the entire film industry
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STAR STUDDED Ravichandran's 150-minute film Maduve will have a constellation of stars
I had mentioned that if Ravichandran were to be a character in an Asterix adventure he would be called Magnum Opus. He always thinks big if not better. Now he's come up with a project that will involve the entire Kannada film industry. Fans will go berserk. Imagine the whole constellation appearing on screen in a 150-minute film. Ravi's brainchild is being funded by Moser Baer who produce CDs and DVDs. In fact, in an effort to curb piracy the company is selling original VCDs and DVDs of Tamil and Kannada films for as less as Rs. 30. Now coming back to the crazy stars latest idea, the film is tentatively titled Maduve. Three sets of writers have been deployed to write their versions based on what happens during a wedding. The most interesting will be chosen. The problem for the writers will be accommodating and giving fair footage to all the stars without bruising their egos. "Every hero expects an introduction scene befitting his star stature and with so many of them the film may end up with just that," says Soori of Duniya fame who's on one of the script panels.
I wonder what the purpose of this whole exercise is? This looks more like a collective effort than a creative one. With so many artistes and technicians involved, the concept looks like it will work better as a mega serial. In his effort to show the camaraderie in the industry Ravi may end up revealing the hitherto unknown under-currents of chicanery. One only hopes it's not a case of too many cooks.
The top stars must be doing a lot of soul searching. Young directors whose offers they had turned down have churned out superhits while their efforts to appear super human are limping at the box-office. While "Aarasu" received a tepid reaction "Bhupathi" and "Parodi" starring Darshan and Upendra respectively have come a cropper. Of course, the producers will tell you that the films are doing well in the B and C centres. There is scant respect for the audience's sensibilities. Another disaster is Sajni an amateurishly handled enterprise. The heroine reads an Indian newspaper in London!
The acting and the dialogues make you squirm in your seat. Even the redoubtable Anant Nag looks helpless.
Sameer Dattani still grapples for the right expression. He definitely needs some `dhyan' on acting. The saving grace is the shoddily reworked songs of A.R. Rahman.
S. SHIVA KUMAR
sshivu@yahoo.com
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