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Kamal Haasan is a delight to work with
The best way to carry on that good man’s legacy is to make films like he did, love cinema like he did, and unearth talent like he did. K Balachanderis frozen forever in Uttama Villain on celluloid,' Uttama Villain director Ramesh Arvind tells Rediff.com contributor Praveen Sundaram.
Ramesh Arvind, a veteran actor in Kannada and Tamil cinema will be making his directorial debut in Tamil with Kamal Haasan’s Uttama Villain.
Incidentally, his first film in Kannada (Rama Shama Bhama – in 2005) was also with Haasan. It was the remake of Balu Mahendra’s Tamil film Sati Leelavati.
Aravind, who has acted in more than 120 films in all South Indian languages, is, like Haasan, a K Balachander protégé. He has also acted in two Hindi films, Aur Ek Prem Kahani and Mumbai Express.
He talks to Rediff.com contributor Praveen Sundaram about Uttama Villain.
Did you choose this project to make your debut as a director in Tamil or did Kamal Haasan pick you?
Two years ago, sometime in March 2013, Kamal Haasan asked me if I remembered a subject we had discussed once, and said, ‘I want you to handle it’.
So I picked it up and have focused only on Uttama Villain for the last two years.
Did you have many brainstorming sessions with Kamal Haasan or was it a bound script and you just had to go on the floors and direct it?
It is his story, his screenplay. But any script develops when it is bounced off others, and I was a big bounce board I think.
It is finely detailed. The next one year went into executing it, which was basically the job that I did.
The trailer appears to be a tribute to the late K Balachander…
Yes. The next trailer which we will release on March 1 with the audio release will be a tribute to KB Sir. We are what we are because of him -- Kamal Sir, I, or any of the other actors introduced by him.
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When does the film release?
In the first or second week of April.
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