Kamal Haasan Instagram – Reposted from @rkfioffl By the time we reached the end of the film, it was constant impromptu improvisation and Ms.Khushboo was a person who shed all her stardom airs and got down to it and worked along side me as an assistant director..That Said now I am coming to my tricks.The cummerbund /belt she was wearing in the climax is unusual and wouldn’t usually be given to a figure such as hers. . However I needed it as I was going to use it as a mark for a double exposure masking . I hence convinced her by saying it would double up the purpose and lend the corset look and she instantly agreed. I asked her to get me 6 similar ones , that could be used as a belt. Mr.Subbu, the line producer, and she got the idea and ran around to get it organised for me in time to move on with what I wanted to do.
My idea for insisting on it was because I wanted Subramanian Raju and Madhan to interact with Ms.Khushboo while the building was tilting and the question was how would we cut a mask while they were in close proximity, and remember we didn’t have CG where you rotoscope that to pull it off. So we had to cut her in the middle and that belt band was the Mark as we chose a most immobile part of the body when you are struck by gravity. This was designed by me and it was quickly understood by another who had worked as an assistant director in “Maya Bazaar” ,which was none other than Mr.Singeetham himself.
I suggested why not build a square set and move it and have tractions on either side with manual pulling and lock positions so that it can stay in one position whenever we wanted it to.
The next of the challenges was about ‘how do you make a whole set move up and down ‘.Too many engineering problems were being discussed .Then I told them about the blotter that was on my father’s desk which was actually a see-saw and I suggested why not build a square set and move it and have tractions on either side with manual pulling and lock positions so that it can stay in one position whenever we wanted it. The art director Mr.Ranga Peketi had ancestry so none of the techniques baffled him. He built that set the way I had visualised it.
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