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| K.V.Anand |
Sri: As digital technology catches up now, do you prefer the conventional camera or the digital?
K.V. Anand: Digital technology is here to stay. It's much cheaper then the camera roll, but the cinematography department is differently organized for both. Most screens in Tamilnadu are now digital.
Sri: Being a celebrated cinematographer yourself, how is that you do not handle the camera when you direct? [M.S. Sundararajan for Karthavyam and M.S. Prabhu for Veedokkade handled the camera.]
K.V. Anand: Both direction and camera-work are two different full-time jobs that cannot be handled by one individual. I feel that one cannot do justice to both jobs if one handles both. I thus am a director alone when I direct, and I don't go behind camera as a director.
Sri: How much freedom would you then give to the cameraman? What advantage would a cameraman gain while working for you? Usually, most other directors don't have much knowledge with camera setups and thus leave the cameraman to the job, but camera is your
prima forte!
K.V. Anand: Yet, I do give complete freedom to them, with zero interference. I just tell my cameraman what I want and I leave the rest for them to handle. I might give a suggestion or two about lighting so that the work can pace up but I don't interfere in their work more than that! That's the whole purpose of limiting myself to direction, right?
Sri: Any plans of making a direct Telugu film or a bilingual?
K.V. Anand: I cannot claim to be familiar with the language yet, though I do understand it. I cannot communicate fluently in Telugu, and thus I feel I cannot do justice to directing a film in a language I cannot communicate well. So, as of now, I do not have any plans of doing a straight Telugu film or a bilingual. I cannot guess about the future, though.
Sri: What difference do you see in Telugu and Tamil film industries really?
K.V. Anand: Telugu film industry pays good remuneration and gives importance to writers, compared to Tamil film industry.
Edited by:
NaChaKi
Interview by :
Sri Atluri
