ACTUALLY, situation demands that you atleast sport a six pack if you want to be a successful Kollywood hero. Sarath Kumar or Suriya are no exceptions and Vijaykanth-waistlines simply won’t do.Here’s where it beats you that director Venkat Prabhu does a movie with the likes of Mirchi Siva, Premgi ‘enna kodumai saar idhu’ Amaren and SP Charan as protagonists. Vaibhav, the new face in the movie, does pull of a macho look, however.
But again, like Venkat Prabhu’s previous Chennai 6000028, this isn’t a herobased script. In fact, the director explains that Chennai 600028 was not even a storybased movie at all, but just life in anyone’s locality, completely uncut. “But Saroja does have a story. It’s a thriller whose climax begins in a quick 40 minutes.
And the pace just doesn’t slacken for you to sit back on your seats ever,” he explains. There’s a story, and then, there’s fun in it, situational.
Simply put, there’s Premgi in his element, who has another one-line refrain (like Enna Kodumai Saar idhu) in this movie as well. “It’s a thriller, alright, but I can’t make a serious movie with guys like Premgi.
He is the guy who spread a word that he was the hero of Santhosh Subramaniyam and Jayam Ravi, was just his friend doing a cameo. He’s doing the same with Saroja too, but let me tell you, all four men are heroes of the movie. SP Charan and Vaibhav play Telugu-speaking people in the movie.
And Jayaram plays a serious police officer, as opposed to all funny roles. In fact, my villain Sampath is a good looker and is even shown having a love life in the film.
It’s not just another movie and care has been taken to make it look like a different road trip film,” explains the director, who adds that directing is more common sense than a curriculum to study, not requiring him to work as an assistant or study direction.
Saroja has music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, composed in a record two days. Cranking the camera is Shakthi Saravanan, who was under the scanner for his dull, jaded work in Chennai 600028. “Not many realised that it was to give a neighbourhood look to the movie.
But this time, it’s going to be a glossy rich look like that of a Hollywood movie,” he adds.
And why? “Because we want to tell people that we Chennai 600028 boys can actually do a technically sound movie with finesse, and not just be funny. We are not like that only.”
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