Vetrimaaran Quotes

Vetrimaaran

Profession : Director

Birth : September 4, 1975

Vada Chennai' is a proper mainstream film, told in a sensible way.

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Going international is my game. I've always wanted to do it, and after 'Aadukalam,' I got to meet Anurag Kashyap, the face of alternate Indian cinema to the world.

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I wasn't happy the way I completed 'Asuran' or abandoned the film as it isn't complete. People are liking it and it's making money and I'm glad but I'm not happy with how I had to finish it.

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Vada Chennai 2' needs a big budget.

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It is much easier to do a film about something that the audience readily knows about - say, cricket. It is much more difficult to write a film based on golf.

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AJ' is a very special movie to me. I have been watching Dinesh and Rajkumar from their initial days, and have witnessed their evolution. The film talks about the bond shared between a father and a son who wants to fulfil his father's dreams. It's a cross between a comedy of errors and a political satire.

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When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it, you have to put in an extra effort.

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Whatever film it is, the geography has to be right. If I cannot establish it, I'll get lost. I wouldn't even understand it in the first place! I hence visit a place and decide what can be conveyed from where; how that can be incorporated in the story.

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I don't believe in one slow panning-shot to show a place. It should unfurl in the story itself.

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For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

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Dhanush paid my salary in 2015 when I needed it to make 'Visaaranai.'

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The psychology of education is all about how the society gets benefited from it.

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When we belong to a community and learn things that are no way related to our society, we live as unwanted entities in that society.

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We should protest to ban NEET altogether.

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India is a conglomeration of different states with various languages, tradition, and culture for each.

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Once, a man at the customs duty check at the Delhi Airport asked me a question in Hindi, and I told him that I didn't speak the language. He got angry and said, 'How could you not speak in Hindi? Hindi is our mother tongue.' I told him that it wasn't my mother tongue. He got furious, and made me wait for over 45 minutes.

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One of my staff members told me that after the release of the film, whenever a custodial death is reported, people say - 'Another 'Visaranai.' This is the kind of change that I am looking for; it should hit you hard.

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Kaaka Muttai' is the expression of an insider. It is a film about globalisation and its effects.

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Manikandan is a complete filmmaker and knows his job well.

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Visaaranai' reflects a stark reality from which you cannot shut yourself out: that is its success.

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