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மக்களை Participate பண்ண சொன்னது குத்தமா? | Director PS Vinoth Raj interview | Filmibeat Tamil
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00:01
You take a small note.
00:03
How big a note you want to write,
00:05
you do it correctly.
00:07
I want to make a film with a single event.
00:09
I was inspired by such films since I was a kid.
00:13
This is the result of that.
00:17
A film without music.
00:18
Even in the sound effects,
00:19
they sell us well.
00:21
A film without music,
00:23
will be watched by our fans.
00:25
Such a thing was coming from outside.
00:29
I have never heard of a film without music.
00:32
I am very happy till now.
00:34
We have made it big in that way.
00:39
The fight in the autorickshaw,
00:41
is like a continuous single shot.
00:44
For this film,
00:46
we had to rehearse for 6 and a half months.
00:49
That day alone,
00:51
we didn't see the crowd.
00:53
Many times,
00:55
we had to calm down.
00:59
I thought,
01:01
I should go to the world,
01:03
and see what is happening here.
01:05
I don't care about my profession.
01:07
I don't have any problem.
01:09
Why?
01:12
Metaphor.
01:13
I will take a shot and show it to you.
01:16
I don't want to see any stupidity in it.
01:19
Tell it in a way that he understands.
01:21
Such a debate is coming up.
01:23
I don't want to underestimate anyone.
01:26
I didn't do it knowingly.
01:28
I don't think it is wrong to think about it.
01:35
Even a successful film needs a company.
01:38
Kottu Kali is a success in that way.
01:42
Greetings to everyone in the country,
01:44
state and home.
01:46
I am Karthik.
01:48
Today's guest is,
01:50
Kuzhangal and Kottu Kali.
01:52
PS Vinothraju is the one
01:54
who started both these films.
01:56
We have come to meet him.
01:58
Let's meet him.
02:00
Greetings.
02:02
In Tamil cinema,
02:04
there is a division between
02:06
art film and commercial film.
02:08
This division started because,
02:10
in the past,
02:12
Balu Mahendra sir and K. Balachandra sir
02:14
had similar films.
02:16
Their films were slightly different
02:18
from the art film.
02:20
How did you come to know
02:22
that these are art films
02:24
and these are commercial films?
02:26
Can you tell us about that?
02:28
Commercial films are...
02:30
I don't know.
02:32
For me, art films are like a film.
02:34
That's all.
02:36
That's my pure opinion.
02:38
I don't have a second opinion.
02:40
It's like a film.
02:42
People come to see a film
02:44
and say that it's a commercial film.
02:46
You can say that about such films.
02:48
It's not like that for me.
02:50
You can say that a successful film
02:52
is a commercial film.
02:54
At that time, Kottu Kali was a success.
02:56
Now, Kottu Kali is a commercial film.
02:58
Everyone is reacting in a funny way.
03:00
All the actors are reacting in a funny way.
03:04
Like that,
03:06
there is a situation
03:08
or an occasion
03:10
for everyone to come to cinema.
03:12
Some people say that
03:14
they want to make money
03:16
by coming to cinema.
03:18
Some say that
03:20
they want to make money
03:22
by coming to cinema.
03:24
Some say that
03:26
they want to show their life.
03:28
They want to show
03:30
that they've seen a lot.
03:32
They want to speak about politics.
03:34
So, there are a lot of people
03:36
who come to cinema to speak about it.
03:38
What was the reason for you to come to cinema?
03:40
What was the reason for you to come to cinema?
03:42
I don't have a reason.
03:44
I didn't know that
03:46
I would make films like this.
03:48
All the films that I've seen
03:50
and worked on
03:52
are from the Tamil cinema industry.
03:54
are from the Tamil cinema industry.
03:56
All the films that I've seen
03:58
or read
04:00
or met
04:02
have a lot of power
04:04
for a whistleblower.
04:06
There are a lot of things
04:08
that I can talk about.
04:10
I'm trying to do that.
04:12
I'm trying to do that.
04:14
I don't think
04:16
that I'm inventing something new.
04:18
This is happening all over the world.
04:20
It's happening in Tamil cinema.
04:22
I've taken a step in that.
04:24
I've taken this stand.
04:26
I've taken this stand.
04:28
I've taken this stand.
04:30
I don't think that
04:32
that's the reason
04:34
why I came to cinema.
04:36
I don't think that that's the reason
04:38
why I came to cinema.
04:40
I would like to make a film based on that
04:45
This is how I wanted to make a film
04:47
This is the knowledge I got after coming here
04:52
Your films, especially the ones I mentioned earlier, use metaphors
04:59
In your film, Koolangalai, every landscape has a metaphor
05:05
Even when your father hits your son in the shot,
05:10
you will go back to that shot
05:12
Even then, the mountain looks like a small mountain
05:15
So, you used metaphors in your films
05:18
Did you read the script and implement them?
05:22
Or did you look at the films and implement them?
05:25
Because many people don't know how to use metaphors in writing
05:27
They think that the story should be run by humans
05:31
How did you come up with the idea of using metaphors and landscapes?
05:35
I don't know how to use metaphors
05:37
For me, the landscape is important
05:40
After that, the characters
05:43
So, I take some images and follow them
05:49
For example, in Koolangalai,
05:53
when her father hits her son,
05:56
she will go back to the shot and look at the mountain
06:04
I get the image of a son hitting his father
06:10
I don't have to think about it
06:14
But the shot has to hold
06:17
I work in this way
06:19
I don't think I need to use metaphors
06:23
When I go into a life and write a script
06:27
and implement the things in it
06:30
I don't know if it is a metaphor or a different layer
06:33
But it is the landscape there
06:35
I capture that landscape
06:37
That's all I do
06:39
In your films, the duration of the shot
06:44
Even in Kottu Kala, the audience is talking about it
06:48
If you use a shot in that, it will be stable
06:52
Some directors would have said
06:55
We don't do everything at once
06:57
We do it slowly and it happens slowly
07:00
So, you wait and see
07:02
That starts in the last frame of Koolangalai
07:06
When the water is filled
07:08
They pour water in small jugs
07:14
It takes a long time to fill the jug
07:19
So, you don't finish it quickly
07:22
You wait and see
07:24
We felt like this
07:26
We take a lot of effort to fill the jug
07:29
To show it to the audience
07:31
You don't have to frame it
07:33
You just have to take a shot in one frame
07:36
And everyone will watch it
07:39
There are some scenes in Kottu Kala
07:43
You show the chair shot in the first frame
07:47
They start the chair shot in the next frame
07:53
There is a silence after that
07:56
There is silence after that
07:58
There are some sounds of nature
08:01
How did you feel about this?
08:04
You felt it, right?
08:06
After I shot that shot
08:08
I felt the sound of nature
08:12
That's it
08:15
I shot it to feel that
08:18
To show how it was before the humans came
08:24
That's why I shot it after they left
08:27
There was a big commotion
08:31
The silence in the land
08:36
It was like abusing that silence
08:40
That's the scene
08:43
We abuse that land
08:46
You are watching this from a noisy place
08:52
But there is a calmness after they left
08:55
You said it well
08:57
I want to say it calmly
08:59
That calmness is what I want to say
09:03
It's not because we want to make a shot
09:07
It's very simple
09:09
You understood it, right?
09:11
You accepted it and said it
09:13
That's it
09:15
It's a metaphor
09:17
I want to show you a shot
09:19
I don't want to see any wisdom
09:21
I don't want to see any wisdom
09:24
I don't want to see you gain anything
09:28
It will be there for a while
09:30
You will get rid of it
09:34
I want to discuss it with you
09:37
Only then a process will happen
09:39
In Kottukali, the chariot is an important part
09:43
You mention another thing in the chariot
09:47
You mention some minute things
09:49
Let's take it this way
09:51
In the chariot, there are three gods
09:55
There will be three eyes
09:57
There will be two eyes below the chariot
10:01
There will be one eye above the other
10:05
Did you mean it voluntarily?
10:08
Yes
10:10
Or did you want to mention the human being inside?
10:14
To show the women
10:16
No, no
10:18
Don't think so much
10:20
There, there is an auto
10:22
It is running
10:24
I am bringing an auto from that village
10:26
There are small things
10:28
In the chariot where Meena is sitting
10:32
There is a dolphin on this side
10:36
I did all this voluntarily
10:38
We will do all this
10:40
We will do it without destroying the reality
10:44
What happens in this film is
10:47
When I see what he is going to say
10:50
I pity him
10:52
But the truth is
10:54
You are saying that you understood
10:56
You are conveying it to me
10:58
I wanted to do only this
11:00
I didn't want to show anything
11:02
Some characters have eye symptoms
11:06
I have heard that Selvaraghavan and Dhanush
11:08
had eye symptoms
11:10
There are many characters in this film
11:12
Annabella and Surya
11:16
In the chariot frame
11:18
There is a mother and Annabella
11:22
They have eye symptoms
11:24
They are looking straight forward
11:28
They are looking straight forward
11:30
Why should they do this?
11:32
Are they tired?
11:34
Or are they tired?
11:36
At least show it in their eyes
11:38
Are they sad? Are they in tears?
11:40
Are they in a bad mood?
11:42
What is the reason for this?
11:44
It is good
11:46
We can say what we would have done
11:50
In this film
11:52
Let it be Annabella or Surya
11:56
Mostly we decided not to show eye symptoms
11:58
The character Pandi
12:00
At the end
12:02
It goes through a thought process
12:04
That's when it becomes an eye symptom
12:06
All this time
12:08
I was thinking about something
12:10
It gets cut
12:12
It creates confusion
12:14
If you are focused, you won't show eye symptoms
12:16
If you are focused, you won't show eye symptoms
12:18
If the focus is lost, it becomes an eye symptom
12:20
Psychologically
12:22
The end of the character
12:24
It goes through a thought process
12:26
All this time I was thinking about something
12:28
It gets confused
12:30
I told Annabella twice
12:32
Annabella was an eye symptom
12:34
There's another frame
12:36
They go to the temple
12:38
Surya sees Annabella
12:40
Surya sees Annabella
12:42
He suddenly sees Annabella
12:44
He closes his eyes
12:46
Is this a voluntary thing?
12:48
Or did it happen by chance?
12:50
It happened by chance
12:52
The auto process
12:54
The fight in the movie
12:56
The fight in the movie
12:58
It's like a continuous single shot
13:00
How did this process take place?
13:02
Did it take a lot of time?
13:04
It was a full rehearsal
13:06
It took us six and a half months
13:08
We were rehearsing together
13:10
That place
13:12
That place
13:14
We didn't see the crowd
13:16
We went to that place many times
13:18
To calm down
13:20
To reduce the crowd
13:22
The people there used to say
13:24
They'll keep shouting
13:26
They'll keep shouting
13:28
Once we started shooting
13:30
They let us go
13:32
They'll come and shout
13:34
It was very helpful
13:36
It became a practice
13:38
They're already doing it
13:40
They're already doing it
13:42
They're already doing it
13:44
For six months
13:46
We used to go to that place often
13:48
We rehearsed
13:50
The shot composing that was uneven
13:52
We had to work very hard for that
13:56
We had to sketch everything
13:58
The camera's operation
14:00
We had to sketch
14:02
That much rehearsing
14:04
Especially the audience
14:06
They had to understand the depth of the scene
14:08
They had to understand the depth of the scene
14:10
To understand the depth of the scene
14:12
We had to say
14:14
We had to say
14:16
It's all about practice and rehearsal.
14:20
That's why it's so original.
14:22
The original violence here is not action.
14:25
That scene is not action.
14:26
It's a lot of violence.
14:28
The violence in the original is rare.
14:35
It's very customary.
14:37
I believe we would have done it right.
14:39
The point of view that you are showing
14:41
can be shown in the point of view of the actor.
14:43
It can be shown in the point of view of you and me.
14:48
But your frames go beyond that.
14:50
You can see what they are doing from a distance.
14:53
You can see what they are doing from there.
14:55
There are a lot of things like this.
14:56
It starts from Kulangal and ends in Kottukali.
14:58
When you are riding a bike on a road in Charotta,
15:03
at one point,
15:05
when we first saw it,
15:07
we couldn't connect.
15:08
A person is riding a bike here.
15:09
A person is riding a bike here.
15:10
A person is riding a bike in Charotta.
15:11
They are standing in one place.
15:13
But you show it from a distance.
15:14
You show a shot from a hill.
15:16
You show a shot of a person carrying a cow.
15:20
You show a shot of a person riding a bike.
15:22
When you show it in the point of view of another person,
15:24
you show what they are doing and where they are.
15:26
How did you come up with this?
15:28
You want to show it in the point of view of another person.
15:31
I wanted to witness it.
15:33
I wanted a witness photograph to be there in the film.
15:36
It's a very internal problem.
15:38
In this film, the width of Kulangal will be less.
15:41
The reason for that is the internal problem in the human world.
15:44
It's a very sensitive issue.
15:47
I wanted to show it to the people of the human world.
15:50
I didn't forget to witness it.
15:53
I wanted to portray the fact that these incidents are happening
15:57
amidst so many people.
16:00
That's why I shot such shots.
16:02
We can talk about that a lot.
16:05
We can talk about the shot divisions.
16:07
We can talk about the psychological work involved.
16:10
The film is going on, right?
16:12
We can talk about that later.
16:14
Two shots have to be discussed.
16:18
There's a shot of a person carrying a cow on a bike.
16:23
If you cut that shot,
16:25
a child is holding a cow.
16:27
Everyone would be scared.
16:29
A small child comes running to hold the cow.
16:31
When she comes running,
16:33
you would have shot her from behind.
16:35
What do you think about this process?
16:45
I'm very happy.
16:47
I wanted to do a film like this.
16:49
That's what I thought.
16:51
There could be a lot of criticism.
16:55
The audience and I could get a lot of criticism.
16:58
Some of that could go out.
17:01
We could let that go.
17:03
Let me give you a point.
17:05
The distinction between the person carrying the cow
17:08
and the girl's face was there.
17:10
We can find a lot of things like this in this film.
17:15
I have to look at all this.
17:17
If you don't tell me what I understand,
17:19
I'll get very angry.
17:21
I did it because I wanted you to understand.
17:23
I don't know how to understand this.
17:27
I keep saying this over and over again.
17:29
Tell me what I understand.
17:32
Tell me what he understands.
17:34
There's a debate going on.
17:36
I don't want to underestimate anyone.
17:40
He doesn't know.
17:42
Let him be. He doesn't know.
17:44
I did it because I wanted to know.
17:46
Not just you.
17:48
I did it because I wanted to know.
17:50
I don't know if it's wrong to think about it.
17:52
I don't know if it's wrong to participate in it.
17:56
I don't know if it's wrong to praise the film.
18:04
I don't even know about it.
18:06
I don't have a problem with it.
18:08
I'm sad if this doesn't happen.
18:10
We watch a film to feel the pressure.
18:16
We watch it to feel the joy.
18:18
I'm like this.
18:20
You have a problem.
18:22
You have to process it.
18:24
You have to process it.
18:26
That's what I think.
18:28
I went to Thirupur to study.
18:34
I didn't do anything.
18:36
I just observed and processed.
18:38
I observed what was happening around me.
18:40
That's what I want to give.
18:42
When you participate,
18:44
when you discuss what's going on in society,
18:48
a big thought process opens up.
18:50
We make the right choices.
18:52
We make the right choices.
18:54
We make big changes in our lives.
18:56
I'm an example of that.
18:58
I want to give this to others.
19:00
What's positive about Koolangal and Kottukallai is that...
19:06
If I had an audience of 20 people in the mainstream,
19:10
Kottukallai's audience has changed to 40-45 people.
19:14
That ratio is decreasing.
19:18
I'm very successful in this way.
19:20
What are they saying to other people?
19:22
What's their problem?
19:24
I can't say anything to them.
19:26
I want this debate to take place.
19:28
I've made such a conscious decision.
19:30
I want this debate to take place.
19:32
It's the people.
19:34
I made it really conscious,
19:36
that this is what we have to face.
19:38
We've respected them.
19:40
That's not for them.
19:42
When it gets conveyed,
19:44
it is definitely Kottukallai.
19:46
The remaining 50% will go to the left.
19:48
You should continue to make more films.
19:52
Vettrimalanda mentioned that P.S. Vinatharajan is an important actor in India.
19:58
He doesn't look down on anyone.
20:02
He said that because he knows that you have a style and a route.
20:08
You should continue to make films in your style.
20:12
Thank you very much.
20:16
If we get another chance to interview you, let's do it.
20:22
Definitely.
Recommended
26:46
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