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Back to the basics
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Raman Kumar is back to what he knows best - exploring relationships
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PHOTO: ANU PUSHKARNA
THE RAMAN EFFECT! Once an assistant to Yash Chopra and Ramesh Talwar, today the industry is full of Raman Kumar's assistants
Many summers ago he had shown us that cinema need not be fantastic to be successful. Saath Saath may not have the highest recall value, but turn on Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar, Yeh Ghar Bahaut Haseen Hai any time, even the proponents of `wholesome entertainment' would long for days when people like you and me used to find screen space.
Now director Raman Kumar is promising those days again. He is working on a series of five films dealing with man-woman relationships. "I believe the society is going through a similar phase to when it appreciated subjects like Saath Saath, Anubhav and Rajnigandha.
In Saath Saath, it's the male whose values get corrupt and the wife takes a stand against him. "
The first film, he says is called Das Saal and is expected to have Kay Kay and Koel Purie in the lead.
"Here the subject is ego... how much a couple should know about each other. "
Long wait
For long we have been waiting for his Sarhad Par, a film on a prisoner of war, and Raman says the wait is about to be over. "Though the film deals with the emotional angle of the war, still we felt that these are not the times to release the film. Earlier Sanjay Dutt kept on taking other projects in between, delaying the film. Now we are reworking the subject. Pakistani actor/singer Fakre Alam has also been signed."
And what about his almost hysterical turn to films like Raja Bhaiya and Wah Wah Ramji? Raman has an excuse. "I wanted to work with Govinda and Paresh Rawal. To me Govinda is the complete actor. Directors, including me, haven't tested his range and he seems satisfied doing a certain type of role. But I managed to complete the film with him in eight months!" he laughs.
`Change is constant'
A bigger name on the small screen where he has given serials like Tara, Ehsaas and the ongoing Millie, Raman says the only thing constant on television is change. "The concepts are like newspapers. They are fresh for a day. "
He laments the news channels have made the task of holding audience attention even more difficult. "They are offering entertainment with lines like hathyare aage badhe... phir bhi unki pyaas na bujhi."
ANUJ KUMAR
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