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Akash Dilip Borkar @akashborkar21 · 56m
Anjaan song shoot has been completed in Goa and it's time to pack up.
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang · 25m
Team #Anjaan moved to Mumbai & shooting some patchwork scenes. Film gets over this week & @dirlingusamy will be free to bring out teaser:-)
Bobby Bedii
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From my current film #Anjaan with #Suriya directed by Linguswamy. Many friends were asking for my stills with Suriya sir. Here you go. One from the block Its nice working with such a good actor
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Samantha Ruth Prabhu @Samanthaprabhu2 · 2h
Mumbai bound.last few days of #Anjaan .woo hoo
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 2m
Heading to Mumbai now & will be with #Anjaan team. Last few days to wrap up the film & get ready for promotions:-)
Samantha Ruth Prabhu @Samanthaprabhu2 · 5h
And its a wrap on #Anjaan .. I can bet on the fact that I work with the nicest people in the industry.They make my job so much easier.love!
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 4m
Happy to share that we just.concluded the final day shooting of #Anjaan & unit packed up. The focus shifts to post production from tomorrow
Sreedhar Pillai @sri50 · 12h
#Anjaan shoot over 2day in Mumbai. Post - Production work in full swing. Trailer b4 end of month.
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Lingusamy @dirlingusamy · 27m
Happy to announce that #Anjaan teaser will be released on 5th July friends!!!
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang · 5h
Watched the rough cut of #Anjaan teaser from @dirlingusamy sir...wow. Superb visuals & Suriya sir is so stylish & bang on. Wait for 5th July
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang · 5h
#Anjaan teaser will by for 1 minute friends... It will be stylish, grand & entertaining. Wait till 5th July.
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 23s
After the teaser release on 5th July for #Anjaan, our focus shifts to a mega audio launch event mid-July. Details shall be on Monday friends
#Anjaan - audio rights have been bagged by Sony Music.Audio launch in Mid-July
a Yuvanshankar Raja musical | Bang..! Bang..!!
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Behind the cameraman
Shooting for Anjaan is over and as ace cinematographer Santosh Sivan rests at home, he talks to udhav naig about the challenges of filming and his upcoming Master class in London
Internationally acclaimed cinematographer Santosh Sivan is exhausted when I meet him at his house in a quiet, secluded corner of a gated colony in Chennai. The cast has just come off an injured left arm and he is back from Mumbai after wrapping up the final schedule of the Suriya-starrer Anjaan. He is staying awake on nicotine, but despite the obvious fatigue, he springs to life when I ask about the speech he is to deliver on July 11 at the British Film Institute as part of his Masterclass at the annual London Indian Film Festival.
“I don’t think they will be interested in technical stuff, you know?” he says. “I feel they are keen to know about where I come from — my early influences, the cultural reservoir I draw from, and what I bring to the melting pot in terms of cinematography and storytelling. I believe it would make for a good collection in the BFI archives,” he smiles.
The occasion is special for Santosh also because his first internationally acclaimed film The Terrorist premiered for the British audience at the BFI. He will be addressing viewers who have seen his work. And what image of Indian cinema will he want to project? “We have all kinds of cinema: both commercial and serious. Indian cinema is peculiar, just like Indian food. It’s unique — with dance and music — which is why Western studios and filmmakers find it difficult to penetrate the Indian market, as they have in Europe,” says Santosh.
With a number of critically acclaimed movies under his belt, he has also been associated with some of the most popular films of Indian cinema — such as Mani Ratnam's Thalapathi, Roja and Dil Se. Apart from the fatter fees, does he find it as satisfying to work in big-budget, hero-driven films as he does with smaller but more personal and intimate films?
“I shoot the big films because I get the money to shoot my small films. I do it because I don’t want to get bored. Having said that, Anjaan may be a commercial film, but it has its own soul. I like how an audience responds to a song, to a larger-than-life character on screen. As a kid, I grew up watching a lot of MGR films. I like these make-believe worlds,” he says.
Some of his best works have been a result of his collaboration with Mani Ratnam, which began with the iconic Thalapathi and continued with films such as Roja, Iruvar, Dil Se and Ravanan. What was it about working with Mani Ratnam that resulted in such great imagery? “When I was honoured for my work in Japan, they were all singing ‘Chaiyya Chaiyya’. It is interesting. The thing with Mani Ratnam is that he pushes his peers to give their best. For ‘Chaiyya Chaiyya’, we travelled by train to so many places in India and finally decided to shoot in Ooty — the idea being to create a song that reminds us all about our first train journey, you know, through those tunnels. And in Roja, for instance, a lot of images were written in at the script level. Even in the Kashmir sequences, the audience only sees the snow when Roja sees it for the first time. These things were written into the script. It is the director’s playground, after all,” he points out.
With so much emphasis on technology and gizmos, does he feel that young cinematographers of today are not focussing enough on the basics of the craft? “What cinematographers of my generation have learnt is to lead from the front and not imitate. You learn from making mistakes. We were taught that if a painter has to have a style, a cinematographer also has to have one. My grandmother always encouraged me to sketch. Doing that, I learnt to observe, re-imagine, recreate. She used to get Raja Ravi Varma images and illustrate the mythology from them. That’s how I started imagining these worlds. The more you become technically oriented, the more you become occupied with the specifications of the camera and lose the subject of the photograph. As someone said, the best camera is what you have in your hand. Just go out and shoot.”
Talking about the importance of a cultural reservoir, he speaks of how great artists reflect their cultural sensibilities. “In England, a shot of a telephone ringing is usually a classic still shot. Whereas cinematographers in the U.S. would incorporate gimmicks to film the same shot. It is all about the approach.”
While he does not believe in formal education, he still prescribes it for the simple reason that you can share ideas about cinema. “The biggest advantage of a film school is that you meet people interested in cinema and people from various cultures. When I studied at the Pune film institute, there were students from Vietnam, some of whom had fought the Americans. It was fascinating to learn about them. But no institution can teach you anything, you can only learn what you want to. What is in the books is already there on the Net.”
Unlike many cinematographers and filmmakers of his generation, Santosh is not too sentimental about digital cinema taking over the traditionally preferred ‘film’, although he does miss it. “Most of them have shot on film all their life. There are certain advantages of shooting on film, but ideally all cinematographers should use a combination of film and digital. Thuppakki was one of the first big films in which I used a digital camera. But I used it because it was needed: a lot of sequences were shot on the roads and we had to use hidden cameras and not too many lights. So, it should be based on what the film warrants,” he says.
He describes his next film Anjaan as a challenge. Why? “This was also shot in Mumbai (like Thuppakki), so I had to present the city in a new light.” And has he managed to do this? He smiles: “That’s for you to tell me.”
Lingusamy @dirlingusamy 5m
Hi All..#Anjaan teaser has come out Big..#july 5th Anjaan Teaser day!! @ThirrupathiBros
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 2m
#Anjaan final teaser will be ready in the next few days with censor. Releasing on 5th & in Youtube by 10 p.m. Excited to know your response
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 25s
#Anjaan audio release will be on 17th July eveng. Full details tomorrow. Will be a mega event&going to invite large no. of Suriya sir's fans
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 27m
Boss #Arya has seen the #Anjaan rough cut trailer. Called & told that it is too good & mass. He quite liked it & wished us success. Thx Boss
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 5h
#Anjaan teaser is censored & ready to roll 5th evng. Excited & looking forward to your response. In youtube by 10 p.m
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Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 4h
Folks, censor certificate does not have the concept of "Teaser" & hence it will carry as "Trailer"... Our trailer will release 2 weeks later
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 1m
#Anjaan teaser is ready & will be screened tomorrow at @vijaytelevision awards. At 10 p.m in Youtube through @SonyMusicSouth ... excited:-)
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 11m
Are you ready for an interesting dialogue from #Anjaan's teaser coming tomorrow? Wait till 3 p.m. Will post it...
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 39m
சின்னதா வேட்டு சத்தம் கேட்ட உடனே பயந்து பறக்கறதுக்கு நான் என்ன புறாவா? நின்னு நிதானமா இரையை தூக்கிட்டு போற கழுகுடா... அஞ்சான்
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 41m
You think I am a pigeon that flees at the sound of a cracker ... I wait patiently and seize my prey. I am the eagle ... Anjaan (in English)
'Anjaan' TN business to start from Monday
Suriya Anjaan directed by Lingusamy, and produced under his banner Thirupathi Brothers in association with UTV, is currently the hottest film in the trade. Anjaan is a pucca mass commercial with Suriya in a dual role and Samantha as the female lead.
The film's theatricals for outside of Tamil Nadu has been sold out including Telugu dubbing rights, Overseas, Kerala, Karnataka and rest of India have been also been sold out.
The Tamil Nadu area wise business will start from Monday (July 7) and is expected to be sold out within a day or so. Many distributors are keen on getting area wise distribution, while two major companies are trying to buy entire Tamil Nadu theatricals.
Bollywood actors Manoj Bajpai, Vidyut Jamwal, Rajpal Yadav and Dalip Tahil play supporting roles in the film which has Cinematography by Santosh Sivan and music by Yuvan Shankar Raja.
Anjaan first look teaser will be released on July 5 at an award night function, followed by the audio on July 17 at a glitzy launch. The film is now in post-production and scheduled to release on August 15 for the big Independence Day weekend.
Tomorrow's paper ad
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very good poster
Dhananjayan Govind @Dhananjayang 1m
Very happy to see the excitement of friends & fans of Suriya sir & #Anjaan film creating huge hype around the teaser. Thank u all. U rock:-)
Raju nahi, Raju Bhai bolo ... Bang Bang Bang ... kannala parthaley Bang Bang Bang .... YSR Bang Bang Bang
All the Bang Bang Bang Best to Anjaan Team.
kuppai !
LINGU is out of form but his luck continuous...Quote:
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I agree. It is so bad. What is this? There was no start middle or end to this movie. Did they forget how to make a movie now? There was no story or screenplay. It was all little flashes of video snippets with a background sound. Did they even hire a dialogue writer? All I heard was "Bulubulubulubulublu" and a punch dialogue for the sake of having one at the end and a pretty lady dancing. To top it all off it was only little more than 1 minute long!! Did they think us audience all have ADD?? Director Lingusamy has lost all his credibility as a director!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Anban