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When I was hanging out around Annapurna Studios trying to get a break, I used to attend the music composing sessions of “Collector Gari Abbayi”. In the course of those sessions whenever its music director Chakravarti and the director B.Gopal used to go for lunch I used to chat up with the music director’s assistant and once in a while he used to sing tunes which he himself composed. I was very impressed with many of his tunes and one day I described to him a scene from “SHIVA” the way I was intending to shoot it and I asked him about what kind of music he thinks should be there in that scene and he replied that there should not be any music in that scene. I was mighty impressed with the answer especially as it came from a musician and I committed to him that if ever I get a break I will sign him as my music director.

There was an extreme excitement in all us youngsters at Panjagutta Colony in Hyderabad sometime in the early 70’s as somehow word got around that a new film called “Enter the Dragon” was coming starring a new actor called ‘Bruce Lee’. It was supposed to have some mind blowing martial arts sequences. I never heard [...]

1.What are your views on getting married? Ans: It is as bad and as avoidable as doing business in partnership. 2. Are you a judgmental person? Ans: I hate Judges. 3. I would call your blog “Confessions of a dangerous mind”. What say? Ans: I would call it “Confessions of truthful mind”. But then truth [...]

Many people do not know that back in Siddhartha Engg. College in Vijayawada I used to be kind of involved in lots of gang fights which were quite common in colleges during those days. I think primarily gang fights in colleges exist because of lack of interest in studies and wanting to seek excitement and [...]

I was always fascinated with Background Music. I saw the film “ALIEN” 17 times in Vijayawada, Urvashi theatre, out of which at least 3 of the shows I just shut my eyes so that the visual won’t disturb my concentration on the music. I used to take in a tape-recorder in a bag to record [...]

I think truly that’s what a Director should be about. I have always maintained that the Director is not a primary artiste in the sense of the word. There is an Actor, a Story, a Music Director, a Cinematographer etc who are all primary artistes. The Director amalgamates all these arts into one wholesome experience [...]

. I used to hangout near a theatre called Vijaylaxmi in a place called Kamayyathopu in Vijayawada. Me and two of my friends Sridhar and Naresh were the 3 most useless bums in our college. Everyday without exception we used to watch movies and many times repeatedly the same movie. The reason for us to [...]

.. It’s amazing for me the sheer number of people the way they remember the impact that “Shiva” had on them. Recently I was travelling from Hyderabad to Vizag and after a few minutes into the flight the passenger next to me asked me who I was as he felt that I looked familiar. When [...]

Lot of people tell me that the sound in Bhoot was very frightening. But it’s actually the silence which comes before that which makes any sound effective especially in the scary film genre. Apart from camera work and background music, sound obviously plays the most important role in creating a state of heightened tension. Irrespective [...]