Interview with Bramma, Director of Kuttram Kadithal – Part 2
After the phenomenal critical appreciation for Kuttram Kadithal, the first question that needs to be asked is “Where did you come from? We could not find anything on you in the Internet!” Excerpts from Bramma's discussion on Kuttram Kadithal & his journey into film-making is presented as a two-parts series. [Part 1 can be found here.]
Interview with Bramma, Director of Kuttram Kadithal – Part 1
Bramma’s journey into film making came across through his participation in the Inter-collegiate South Zone Culturals events during his stint of pursuing a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Loyola and his entry into Kollywood Mainstream Cinema is even more fascinating. On a day in 2012 when he resigned a job, he was asked the question, “What next?” at a Tea Shop by his friend Christy, for which he did not have a clear answer. When asked if he could make a film at a low budget, he replied in the affirmative without hesitating one bit. That was how Kuttram Kadithal, the National Award winning film, up for release next week, was born!
Is it the dearth of Ideas or Evolution of Cinema Journalism?
If you have a Twitter account and have the habit of checking it regularly, you would have experienced seeing trending topics on the likes of #23YearsOfAjithism, #Celebrating3YearsofVelayudham, #MasssSuriyaBiggestHeroInSouthIndia. The names of actors & even the context of such crazy hashtags would change based on the trending geography you have chosen to see. When you attempt to analyse the very source of such trends, you will get to see some fanatics having a concrete plan to make these work! They create groups and accounts, which will decide and propagate the exact ‘Hashtag’ that the fans are instructed to make a trend of.
On Premam & What’s Lost in Translation
While watching Woody Allen’s Radio Days, in spite of the language being English, I found myself increasingly unable to relate to the American radio scene of 1930s & 1940s. All I could map on to were the songs I used to record on to an Audio cassette from Akashvani) radio during my school days & with the ascent of Satellite TV (M TV, Channel V), the custom-made cassettes that I got recorded by paying Rs. 60 per cassette to ‘Magnum Audio’ consisting of songs from America to Caribbean to Indipop to Bollywood to Raja-Rahman and the like.
The Magic of Munnariyippu
With the onset of a good number of path breaking cinema making its way to mainstream, Mollywood is the place to be for new and aspiring talent. The same applies to a self-proclaimed movie buff that I am who initially did not indulge into Malayalam cinema, owing to language barrier but slowly learning to overcome it with the increasing trend of subtitling for regional movies.