DIRECTOR SATHYA SIVA INTERVIEW

Though Savaale Samaali is an outright comedy film, it is under-laid with an interesting topical concept. We generally tend to ignore things behind the screen, not just in film but even in our day-to-day activities, we only look at the subject but don’t care what goes behind that. This story is about people behind the screen.

It has neither violence nor profanity. It’s a simple clean, feel-good film which runs close to 2 hours and 30 minutes that an entire family can watch without brooding.

Frankly speaking, I did not handpick them. The producers said that they had Ashok Selvan’s dates in hand and asked me if he would suit the bill, I absolutely had no hesitation and said yes the very moment.

Ashok Selvan has been doing some good but serious films and this would be good change for him to do a comedy film.

Likewise, the script demanded bulk dates from the heroine character and since I had already worked with Bindu in Kazhugu, I knew she wouldn’t mind giving me 100 plus days from her call sheet.

Madhu Ambat is a genius and so is Shelvakumar. I have learned so much of technical nuances from Shelvakumar as much as I learned from Madhu Ambat. Shelva has been in the industry for over 30 years. He has done some excellent work in Bengali films. It was an extremely pleasing experience to work with him and his cinematography sure adds a lot of zest to the film.

A very busy music director in Telugu found time to compose some superhit numbers for us. BGM is very important in horror and comedy films and I am glad that it has come out so well.

There are so many, especially I am a huge fan of classic old films and films that are close to reality. The satisfaction and energy that a good reality based film gives you are unmatchable.

If I had to pick one recent film I would say Vazhakku Enn 18/9.