Idlebrain.Com
home
audio
movie
celeb
box-office
research
nostolgia
usa special
bollywood
hyd scene

Chitchat with Neelakanta
Neelakanta

Hyderabad
January 5, 2008

National award winning director Neelakanta is an expert at screenplay. Though his last two films failed to meet the expectations at box office, there is lot of craze for his latest film 'Mr. Medhavi'. Here is our chitchat with Neelakanta -

What went wrong with your earlier film Nandanavanam 120kms?
Nandanavanam 120 kms was an out of way experiment film. There were no commercial elements in that film and it failed to impress audience as there were no songs and no humor. It was a dark film.

Generally people refer to a person as 'Mr. Medhavi' in a negative sense. What about the title of your film, is it in a positive sense or negative sense?
You will have to wait till the movie release to know about it.

What kind of film it is?
It is a romantic love story. The story of the film is wafer thin. Mr. Medhavi is a treatment based subject. Mr. Medhavi is a Missamma kind of film that caters to all kinds of audiences. In my earlier films I concentrated more on psychological aspect, but in this film I concentrated more on physicality. This film has formula back-up too.

What is the reason behind casting Raja and Genelia?
While writing script itself I had Raja and Genelia in my mind because they are very apt for this story. Both these characters have equal importance in the film.

Generally your films have prominent heroines and not-so-successful heroes in main leads? It is your policy?
It was just a coincidence.

Your films have different screenplay techniques. Which kind of screenplay you followed this film?
I can confidently say that the screenplay and narration technique followed in this film is being presented for the first time in Telugu films.

What are the key elements in Mr. Medhavi?
Artists performance, story, music and camera work are going to be key elements along with the screenplay.

What about human touch?
Films like Missamma and Show have human psychology and relationships as the top ingredients.

What is your next film?
I will decide about it after the release of Mr. Medhavi on 24 January 2008.

More chitchats
Sonia (Happy Days)
Raja
Venkatesh
Ravi Babu
Lagadapati Sridhar
Prabhas
Raahul
Venkatesh
Sawariya couple
Puri Jagan
Uday Kiran
Anushka
Haranadh Policherla
Ravi Teja on Dubai Seenu
Seenu Vytla on Dubai Seenu
YVS Chowdary on NTR
Manchu Manoj
Sunil
VN Aditya
Gopichand
MS Raju
Visakha Singh
Sumanth
Vedika
Lawrence
Raja Sekhar
Sumanth 4
Satish Thati
Krishnam Raju
Shabana Azmi
Maniratnam
Cherry
Farzana
Mohan Goteti
Ravi Varma
Sumanth
Reema Sen
Vishal
Nayana Tara
Nagarjuna
RK (Hyderabad Nawabs)
Mohit Ahlawat
Sumanth 3
Dr. Haranath Policherla
Gangaraju Gunnam
Ajay
Dhanush
Keeravani
Rama Rajamouli
Anushka
Nitin
Meera Chopra
Ileana
Dil Raju 2
Mahesh Babu 3
Sharvanand
Kalyani Malik
Sumanth 2
Sekhar Kammula 2
KM Radha Krishnan
D Rama Naidu
MS Raju
Nagarjuna
Puri Jagan
Jayasudha
Anil Krishna
Allu Arjun
Anthony
Krishnam Raju
Allari Ravi Babu
Devanand
Ramana Gogula
YVS Chowdary
Brahmanandam
Sekhar Kammula
Madhu Sharma
KS Rama Rao 2
Sumanth
Srihari
Mohan Babu 2
Sania Mirza
Suresh Kondeti
KV Ramana IAS
Raja
Surya
Vikram 2
Srikanth Chinnamatur
Prabhas 2
Satya Krishnanan
Prabhas 1
MRV Prasad
PG Vinda
Jaya
Devi Sri Prasad
AM Ratnam 2
Sonu Sood
Ram Gopal Varma 3
Mahesh Babu 2
Shankar
Vikram 1
Mohan Babu 1
KS Rama Rao 1
Dil Raju
Manyam Ramesh
Tarun
Raghu Babu
Krishna Vamsi
Posani Krishna Murali
AS Ravi Kumar Chowdary
Sravanthi Ravi Kishore
MS Raju
AM Ratnam
Nagarjuna
Ram Gopal Varma 2
SS Rajamouli
Venkatesh
Mahesh Babu
Ram Gopal Varma
Vanisri

Tell us how you liked this article

 

emailabout usprivacy policycopy rightsidle stuff