Now people nonchalantly talk about 20 to 30 crores, but back then it was huge. Towards the end of the filming, during the tsunami sequence we realized we needed a crore more to achieve the visuals written by me for the climax.
I had taken to heart the advice of Mukta Srinivasan to closely guard my baby and just kept doing that. “I knew we had something precious and convinced him to hold back and am grateful he understood then. However I had to stop him by telling him that people would not find a need to go to a cabaret or a strip tease if the advertising posters had images from the final climax and there is nothing further to entice them in! Our producer was enthusiastic to immediately release all of the 10 looks in the media.
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During the process Ravikumar realized the full scope of the looks and immediately engaged a photographer for $250 a day to record each look. Sometimes I did two different looks /make ups as we were building the makeup in layers and it was done in a lab. Every day for 21 days was hard work and one time Mr Michael also pushed himself in helping me with wiring me for a photo shoot and held me too as I wanted to try a kick a certain way. Michael Westmore bent over backwards and did a stupendous job during the trial. THE BEGINNINGĪny producer would have found it ridiculous that the director and I went to the US for 21 days just to do make-up tests for all the looks, but we did it. The rest were new to the ideation, scale and budget.
My biggest support was from Sujatha who said “you got it bang on man”. It was a very important exercise as they are all experts and have the expertise to analyze the script. We had Mr Sujata, Madhan, Ramesh Arvind, Mr Crazy Mohan all sit with us for a narration and I answered all the questions they kept asking. Once I finished the logline with Mukta Srinivasan, the director was still skeptical about the way the script was written. I took his advice and spent all my time on it. They will kill the child otherwise if you only decide to walk in and out of shoot”. Mukta Sir heard the Dasavatharam script and he said “Kamal you must watch over the film closely as it’s your idea and go further and foster it like your child. In Nayakan, thanks to Mr Mukta, the heroine’s character was beautifully written as a young girl who prepares her exams while being an inmate in a brothel. For Dasavatharam it wasn’t any different and thus I wanted to take Mr Mukta Srinivasan’s opinion as he has strong instincts and is a brilliant short story writer. That’s how the movie came into being! Most of the time I work alone and like to take the opinion of seniors and well wishers while on a project. He immediately claimed it a winner on cards and was surprised that it was turned down and asked to make the film while on a telephonic conversation with me at Eldams Road. Talking about embarking on this journey of making, he begins by saying Dasavatharam was a script which was declined by many directors who said they didn’t understand it, and quite unexpectedly Ravikumar jumped at it. For instance the Mogul Emperor, the German Monarch, Ashoka ,Chola and many more down the line in history. You cannot expect that from corporations in a hurry who work for a quarterly review. The greatest sponsors are artists themselves, fortunately in history sponsors have also been connoisseurs for instance and hence it helped art. They are temporary and would think only for the moment. When you make art for posterity, do not expect sponsors to be in agreement. “A coveted file, which makes more sense when released today than yesterday.
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