Thread: Snehasallapam with Ranjith Sankar - 11/08/09 - Transcript updated in 1st page !

This is really Gr8...Amazing Feeling!!!
Ennenkilum oru celebrity aaayitu venam ivide vannu chatil pankedukkan!!!

Originally Posted by double chankan

My question to PFC.

1.
A movie like passenger which thinks in a different track than malayalam cinema has been thinking so far is truly a risk for a producer. It can click, it can bomb. But there are fairly safe routes also which a director-producer-actor combo normally takes.

What/who gave you the courage to take the riskier route.

2.Are you satisfied with the BO performance of Passenger. If not, did you feel at any point of time that you should have settled for a more safer approach than radical thinking?

3.Passenger and A wednesday shares a common theme to a large extent. I know that you were ready with your script way b4 Wednesday happened.
However did the similarity worry you?
Have you watched A Wednesday?
Did it bring about any changes in your script knowingly/unknowingly?

4. We have directors like Roshan Andrews who wait endlessly for their dream project to materiaise. They are not worried about the time which they lose at the peak of their career.
Do you think that is a 100% right approach?. For eg, u made passenger in 2009. If you come out with the next in 2011 or late 2010, dont you feel that you lose out the milaege created by your first work?.

5. How has life changed in the industry after passenger? Have people who treated you silly before started to listen to you? Please share under conditions of anonymity.

1.My mind.I felt there was nothing more important in my life.The dream was to make it,wudnt have mattered how it fared actually.Even if I made it and kept in my bedroom i wud have been happy.But i strongly felt there was no point movig along without making it.Of coz my family was a grt support when i decided to produce it initially.I guess i got a producer since I showed that confidence.

2.Not completely,but i am pretty happy about it.Its been a dream debut with all the appreciation and media recognition for a total stranger and rank newcomer like me.As i said before I never tried to make a SAFE movie,juz a movie I wanna see as an audience.

3.I watched wednesday.I found no similarity to passenger .Dint even think about it hence then.Premchand of mathrubhumi described it malayaeess wednesday

4.There is no 100% right approach.U cant make a movie to capitalise on a previous success in quick time I guess.It never works for me.
I am ready with my new script.If I fix a lead an actor I am ready to shoot anytime from Jan.Lets see how it works out.

5.No changes.I go to office everyday,do my job and come back like all of u guys.Just that my phone got real busy.I dont remember anyone treating me silly before.Maybe coz I never felt am that important to be treated seriously.

I feel a bit responsible now as I can just churn out a movie if i decide to.There are people ready to invest,believing in u.

Superb. Thanks PFC.

sramikkam chankan