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Nothing is more truer than that line from the “Idea” campaign which says “An idea can change your life”. My whole life and also my career as a Director is a living testimony of that truth both in positive and negative ways. It could range from a film like “Satya” coming from an Idea like [...]

I have always been asked this question regards to which actor surprised me the most that I have ever worked with and now I can say without a doubt that it is Surya. To elaborate on this answer I have to define first what the word ‘ACTOR’ means to me. Most people I know including [...]

Just posting some memoirs of my assistant director Siva Nageshwar Rao of his experiences with me during the making of “Shiva”. These he mailed me after he read my “Assistant to Assistant” article on this blog. “You used to repeatedly tell the story of  ‘Shiva’ to all us assistants, not just scene by scene but [...]

Youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIbnwBwmSNk The song tune is inspired from one of my all time favourite pieces of music of the Italian composer Ennio Morricone. He did this theme for the film ‘Exorcist II: The Heretic’. Incidentally Morricone is also the composer for a great number of cult western themes including ‘The Good, the Bad and [...]

I was so confidently clear about the opening shot of my first film “SHIVA” that the camera set on the crane should be showing the college in the suggestion of a college name-board, come down slowly and pan to the close-up of a car wheel coming into the foreground and stopping in front of the [...]

From the time I started researching the story of Paritala Ravi, to now editing the film, I am discovering so many things within me and also learning so many facets about my own perceptions of various things and this is happening mainly because of my ongoing continuous understanding of the characters of Rakta Charitra as [...]

Quite a few times I keep meeting people unrelated to films at public places like airports or functions etc, who comment on the way I frame my films. They say something ranging between “I like your frames” to “Your frames look so different” to “Why do you frame like that?” It does surprise me that [...]

Apart from the title of a film attracting one’s attention, it also gives a certain emotional tone to the film through which one can in a very specific way look at the film. I have always been fascinated with movie titles. The first title I consciously remember as a kid being intrigued and impressed with, [...]

IBN7 did a programme of having a discussion with me and the people coming out of the theatre after watching RANN. There were a group of about 15 youngsters all of them having completely diverse opinions on various things in the film and I was reacting to their range of reactions. Just to hear in [...]

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l_VRRBnEVE Written and Directed by Milind Gadagkar (also the writer of Phoonk) This Theatrical will be released with RANN. Join yourselves on the social sites to stay updated about Phoonk 2. Phoonk 2 on FB: Profile Fans Page Group Phoonk 2 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/phoonk2 | Follow it @phoonk2 Download the Teaser Video (Click [...]