Silent movie: Pushpak is a silent comedy released in 1987. This film was directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao and written by Kamal Haasan. Set in a large unnamed Indian city (shot in Bangalore), the film is based on the king-for-a-day story. The film is notable for its inventive re-casting of the silent film form.
Innovation is everything in the modern world. ‘Innovate or die’. Every industry or sector tries to innovate and bring in freshness and new excitement. Movies are no exception. The maker of the epic documentary ‘Corporation’ let viewers watch the documentary free on the internet. At the end was an appeal for a donation and it worked. Many did contribute. The latest ‘in thing’ is crowd funding for a movie. The producer puts out an appeal in the digital media and the interested public can fund the movie in return for future profit (if the movie makes profit!).
Apoorva Sahodharargal is a 1989 Tamil feature film directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao. The film had Kamal Hassan in triple roles, as a mechanic, a dwarf circus clown and a police officer. The film was dubbed into Hindi as Appu Raja. The make-up used on the dwarf in ‘Apoorva Sahodarulu’ floored the audience and they had no clue as to how he could manage it.
But, the film’s director Singeetam Srinivasa Rao not only revealed the secret but also felt that an interactive session with members of a film society and others was the right venue and best occasion to do so. At the session organized by the Vizag Film Society, Mr. Srinivasa Rao revealed the secret and said that the credit goes to Mr. Kamal Hassan, who worked very hard for the role, the photography director P.C. Sriram and a set boy called ‘Japan’.
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