Worried by this, the producer said he will suggest names and suggest Mr Himesh Reshammiya and added on Ms Mallika Sherawat too as his suggestion.Mr Himesh did a wonderful job with the music when it was a time the press wasn't very supportive of him. Lots of music directors found the script uninteresting and I was confused by their reactions. It used to excruciatingly painful everytime there would be a delay due to technical issues. I was like a tortured animal and wanted the scenes with the paati character to finish soon. For the latter he gave me a cataract eye and I couldn't see. The easiest to carry off was Naidu and the most debilitating was Krishna paati. Mr Westmore was the 11th Avatar of the film, without him the other 10 would not have been possible. Mr Westmore's contribution to the film is equivalent to mine. Naidu was so simple yet went up a notch because of the accent. So much so he asked me why I had decided to name the samurai Shingen Narahachi and i had to explain to him how I am weaving in mythology and this character was an analogy to the Narasimma avatar and hence 'Shingen' like 'Narasinghar’It was amazing how he made my round eyes into beautiful Asian flat eyes to give me the perfect look for the character. He delves into the script completely and works on the looks. Mr Westmore is a master of his craft and believes in least intervention with reality while creating a look and I consider him my Guru. So also Pushpak, which had two visionaries and a businessman as producers helming it and hence it was done in a small tight budget and yielded great results. It was not done by just a number crunching producer, but a visionary too. If you believe in something, it can always be achieved and example from way before is Aboorva Sagotharargal. Be it art directors, stunt directors as some of the Stunt sequences were like never before, the CG team who we used to quarrel with over budgets as they wanted 2 million and we used to ask them to show us a khadi Gramodyog way of achieving the output and that's why due the lack of budgets some portions of CG might not look the way it is supposed to have looked.All of my technicians helped me complete the project through all the insults, quarrels, stressful environment etc and I am grateful to them and on the other hand, I would never forget or forgive those technicians who gave up and ran away like rats ditching the project. I am not being myopic to budgets, it is just that I am grateful to each and every technician who stood by me and made me achieve my vision. We had so many other good technicians who weren't able to come on board.The entire concept of the film was new and challenging, like just the first 10 minutes sequence in re creating a period cost 2.5 crores which was new to everyone. I remember that Mr Jeeva was supposed to be the cinematographer but couldn't take up the project. I gave Mr Ravichandran some of my rights to the film as I ALWAYS invest in my movies and we were partners in the film and he had seen my vision to fruition and we pulled off what was near impossible then.Įveryone was pushed to their limits during to achieve the project Ms Gauthami's contribution, art director Mr Sameer Chanda did the first 10 minutes of the film and left, Mr Thota Tharani picked up from there followed by Mr Prabhakar who did the airport sequences they all did a fabulous job. However, Mr Ravikumar had fully understood the script and fought tooth and nail to get the climax done as scripted originally and we spent the additional 1 crore. But I was willing to do it’s I had to have an alternative our producer You must remember here that I once made a film named Vikram which was then called 'oru kodi rubai kanavu', but within two decades it was about a crore more for just one sequence,but that's the evolution of cinema with technology. I offered to rewrite the script without the tsunami and end it with the train sequence, but the butterfly effect would have been lost. Earrings Wt : 59.Towards the end of the filming, during the tsunami sequence we realized we needed a crore more to achieve the visuals written by me for the climax.Now people nonchalantly talk about 20 to 30 crores, but back then it was huge.