Post Production Updates

The latest news is that the movie post-production works are coming along well and the movie should be ready approximately in another month or so. One of the question most people ask me is when will the movie get released. I guess if everything goes well around January the movie should be ready for release. But remember there is always an "IF".

Recently Snehas was awarded with Nandhi award for her Telugu film "Gopalam". Hope this movie will be another milestone for her career.

Right from the beginning I was highlighting a lot of information about this film that will be trend setters. Notably the live audio is another key factor in this movie as all the scenes were shot with live audio and no dubbing except for couple of scenes. Prasanna and Sneha were asked to dub a couple of scene that needed some dubbing. When I spoke with the directory he told me that he was even thinking to dub one of the dialogue that I spoke in the film as it was not audible. I am a fast talker and I usually gulp some letters in words and that was caught by our directory during the post production. But they left it at that as it was natural and a very small dialogue in the movie. Another tit bit is - Since this movies involved artists and technology that span multiple countries the post production works are also being done both in Hollywood and in Kollywood.

Hollywood Hails Achchamundu!

I am little lagging on updating this blog as my job is demanding more time these days. But I wanted to update with a few news that I came across the movies.

- Our director had an opportunity to show the movie to some Hollywood big shots and here is the news from Behindwoods

- Sneha's interview about her experience in working with the film can be found here

In the meantime I realized that our director's blog was bombarded with spam comments from internet bots. It is sad to see some of the genuine comments going away from his blog because of this hassle. I believe now he is moderating his comments and back on track - Arun's Blog

Post Production Update

It has been a while I did give any update on the movie. My work is demanding more than before as our company go acquired by the software giant Oracle. Anywayz, our director Arun was in India for the post production works. Karthik Raja who is scoring the music for the film started to add more life to the movie through his Re-recording and music. See here for the videos taken during the post production work in Chennai here - http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/gallery/events/16302.html

After the completion of the post production work in Chennai, our director return back to USA. Now he is off to Hollywood to complete more work. I shall update more on that in my next entry.

Wrapppppppppppp!

This is the buzz word most of us are hearing lately. Even though it makes many of us happy that our work is done, this is when the next phase in film making starts - Post Production. The AA team completed their shoot for the most part especially the cast and crew's work is pretty much done. Everyone is now anxiously expecting the most crucial part of the film making - Editing.

Editing is where all the footages will come in a nice shape. N.P.Satish is the editor for this film. His experienced touch will shape this movie in the coming days. His profile includes movies like Devar Magan, Magalir Mattum, Mahanadhi, Chach 420 etc. It is to be noted that one of the producer for this film is also a close associate of Kamal Hasan in addition to Satish who worked with Kamal Hasan in many movies. From a recent announcement it is an interesting news that Kamal Hasan will be making his next movie using Red One camera that the AA team used for this film.

Director Arun when talking after the movie wrap said, '... now it feels like I had delivered the baby ...'. Thats right he delivered the baby and now its time to take care of the baby so that it can grow up to the next stage. The team is passing off their work to the next group so that re-recording, editing, visual effect etc. can be done. Most of these will be done here in USA.

Red, Red, Red and More Red

It is an old news that 'Achchamundu Achchamundu' is being shot using the Red One Camera. Also I mentioned earlier that this is the first Tamil and especially Indian movie to be shot in Red One Camera. But the interesting fact is that - not just one but 4 Red One Cameras are involved in filming (Can I even say this word?! I guess I can) this movie. At some point of time they used 3 Red One Cameras at the same time.



[Image Courtesy : http://www.arunhere.com]

Red One Camera is capable of recording at resolutions up to 4096 horizontal by 2304 vertical pixels, directly to flash or hard disk based digital storage. It features a single Super 35-sized CMOS sensor and a cinematography industry standard PL mount.



[Image Courtesy : http://www.red.com/]

Director of this film, Arun mentioned in his blog - 'I am sure this camera is going to be a boon for Indie film makers with lot of dreams and a decent budget.'

Speeding Up!

The past weekend was a hectic schedule for the movie crew and cast. After completing the scenes at a major location for this movie they are off to other locations to shoot scenes involving lot of other artists. The famous Bridgewater Temple in New Jersey was one of the location.

Couple of scenes involving many artists was shot over the weekend and during the starting of this week. It was really challenging for the Director, DP and the crew to manage lot of artists especially kids. Things are getting to speed up as we are approaching the wrap for the shooting of this movie. I guess around the July 4th weekend will be the wrap time for the shooting. Will bring you the last minute updates soon...

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.