The Director's and The Leading Actor on the set - Exclusive

The world's second most popular sport Cricket has found a place in this movie too. With the latest buzz around Cricket, IPL, ICL, it would be interesting to watch Indians in America play Cricket in big screen. Especially the American technicians who grew up with baseball found it difficult to understand the game while shooting the Cricket scenes for the movie. USA also has a lot of Cricket leagues that play Cricket matches regularly.

I was able to catch our movie crew shooting a Cricket scene for Achchamundu Achchamundu at one of the parks here in New Jersey. With sunny weather in high 90s and humidity in high 80s the scenes were shot. During the break Arun, the director and Prasanna, the Leading Actor in this movie spend some time to talk about the movie and my blogging about this movie. And here it is for you ...

The City That Never Sleeps

There were some shooting at some of the prime locations in New York yesterday. Notable places are Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building...

It is hard not to shoot in New York when you are shooting in Jersey. The exotic skyline of the New York City and the busy people of New York city are always amazing to see. Looks like the director decided to give a scoop of this to his movie audience too. In addition lots of other small happenings will portray life of NRIs in USA.

Arun's Enthu

I was at the shooting spot this Tuesday and witnessed Arun's enthusiastic work. Yesterday was the last day of shooting at one of the prime location here in New Jersey. Arun was a little upset as he got attached to that location after a few days of shooting. But everything was wrapped up fine. In the next few days other small locations will be done.

I believe they are hopping to wrap things up by mid-July so that the post-production work will then get started in full swing.

Surprise Seasoned Actor

On the last day of the shooting at one of the prime location for the movie we all were surprised to see a new actor. There was a scene where a snake was involved in this thriller. It is interesting to wait and see what is the actual role of the snake in the movie.

The director, Arun had to audition couple of snake to select one that will appear in the movie. Like human actors Arun prefers a snake which is active. See Arun with the snake here in his blog.

But here is a picture of the seasoned actor who finally go selected and appeared in the scene.

Prasanna - Injury - Rod - Blood - Hospital

I was shocked when I heard that the there are news all over the internet and in newspapers saying that actor Prasanna was seriously injured during shoot as he was hit by the Hollywood actor John Shea who is doing a leading role in this movie. I know that there was a small timing miss during a stunt scene last week and John Shea hit Prasanna with his HAND. The shooting was delayed by 15 to 20 mins because of this and it resumed back to normal.

In fact some big websites like Sify, Indiaglitz had these news was a little upsetting. Since I know what happened in this case, I am starting to suspect most of the news that comes out in media these days. This is what happens when something was spread as a word of mouth - Communication Mutilation. Read the director's blog for a true scoop.

I called the a friend of mine who is assisting the production at the set and made sure that things are OK and infact some of the news in the media are not completely true. Also I went to the shooting spot yesterday and everything was just fine. Prasanna was giving his best effort energetically on the last day of shoot at one of the prime location for this movie. There are still some more scenes left but those will be shot in various other locations.

Dasavatharam on Silver Screen

Sneha and Prasanna enjoyed Kamal Hasan's Dasavatharam last week with North American fans at a movie theater in Central Jersey. Few fans recognized them on the way out and they were patient enough to pose for a some pictures and chat with fans. I believe this is the second movie that Sneha is watching in USA during this trip and its the first movie for Prasanna.

It is to be noted that one of the producer for this movie P. Srinivasan (from India) worked with Kamal Hasan in project liks "Hey Ram" and "Marudhanayakam".

Night Owls

I had a chance to go and see the night shoot that started last week. It was amazing to see how people go all night with the shooting. I always thought that they have the whole night for the shoot and it is better and productive than the day shoot. But after being at the shooting spot for one whole night of shoot I changed my impression.

There are many factors in a night shoot starting from wrapping things up before the day light kicks in play a major role. Too much water, tea and coffee get consumed during a night shoot. Also the leading stars who will have a close up shot shouldn't look sleepy or like a zombie without sleep in the camera.

The day I was in the spot, last Friday scenes involving all the 3 leading stars from the movie were shot. There were some fight scenes that were shot last week. I was told the night shooting is going to continue this week also as they move forward to shoot the climax scenes.

Information Technology & AA

If you are wondering what is the relationship between Information Technology and this movie, there is a lot actually. I am not going going to talk about the special effects or post production magics that you can do with computers here. I am here to talk about 2 of the people from the movie crew. The director was an IT consultant before he started his career in the entertainment industry. Chris Freilich, who is handling the camera and cinematography for this movie was also an IT consultant for a while.

Needless to say I am also making my bread and butter in the IT industry. So are most other people who are playing small roles like me in this movie. People like Arun and Chris are real inspiration for anyone who want to pursue their interests and goals with the big entertainment industry. If you google on both of these guys you would know how hard they worked through their way in the entertainment industry.

Weather - The Bad Boy

Excellent weather over the weekend but the week is started crazy! Crazy weather here in Jersey is playing a bad boy role in this movie for the past few days. Some of the impacts are less day light, early dusk, cloudy atmosphere. These thing really affect film making. So some of the outdoor scenes may get affected because of the bad body weather.

This is Week-2 and it started well with one of the Producer and Assistant Director joining the crew from India. Finally I saw a sign of relief in everyone here. The directory became really enthu and the producer here at US was also happy. So it will nice to see the progress of the film with everyone in place and only few words to be uttered "Action", "Cut" etc.

Who am I?

Most people asked me after reading my blog, who am I and how am I related to this movie. I should apologize that I haven't stated my affiliation with this movie. I am performing a small role in this movie. I was auditioned for couple of roles and the director selected me to do the role that I am currently doing. You and even I would have to wait and see how it is going to come in the big screen.

I have a lot of confidence in the director and his script so that it will be a very nice experience for me to be involved in this movie. I am working with some great people here and will get to know more about film making. I already saw all the pre-production work that went on for this film. Now that shooting is going on I am excited and thrilled to be in front of the camera. I cant wait to see the post production works. Wish me good luck guys!