On a different turf
Chaitanya is busy working on his second Kannada movie, Suryakanti
New ideas Chaitanya
Here’s one director who does not believe in following the rules of conventional storytelling. He wowed the critics and also the audiences with his first Kannada movie “Aa Dinagalu”. Flush with success, young Chaitanya is busy with his second movie “Suryakanti”, which incidentally is a typical masala film.
“I did not want to be typecast as a director who is comfortable in making only one kind of cinema.
I want to try all genres,” he says and adds, ‘“Suryakanti’ will have everything people will look for in a commercial entertainer.
It has action, running around trees and long drawn fights,” says this former student of University of Hyderabad. “Aa Dinagalu” captures the incidents that shook Bangalore in the ’80s. “The film was based on a true story about a notorious gangster Kotwal Ramachandra and the incidents that led to his killing,” says Chaitanya and adds, “The film had to be realistic but at the same time appeal the audience.”
The director was successful in drawing the crowds back to the movie halls and the film made the cash registers ringing.
What ails Kannada film industry? “Most of our makers do not believe in making original cinema. They either remake or dub Telugu and Tamil movies. On the other hand, Kannada television is doing a good job. We do not have the typical saas-bahu episodes but serials based on current issues. The programmes show that Kannada industry is brimming with talent and it needs to be channelised and given encouragement.”
Chaitanya shares a special bond with his guru Girish Karnad. “I feel honoured to be picked by none other than Girish Karnad. He is a genius,” he says. A former journalist, Chaitanya is writing a couple of projects and does not mind directing a Hindi film. “It pays to do a Bollywood movie so…More
