December 02, 2008
Bommalattam, Bharathiraja’s latest, had long been delayed but will finally get a release on the 12. It’s press meet was held this evening at Four Frames, Chennai, where the director vociferously spoke against corporate companies involved in producing cinema today.The movie is based on a real story, and he has used actual people from the locations instead of actors. The last time he did a true story was Manvasanai. It’s about three murders and a murderer who was never caught by the police. However, in the movie, he will show the murdered being caught by the police. Raja said the climax of the film is unique and no one will be able to guess it.
Bommalattam had been screened at German film festivals where it was critically appreciated. One German film institute has even included the film as a text to be studied in the course. Raja said the movie had been delayed because of corporate companies not supporting the film enough. They felt it did not have a wide market and so did not promote it. He went on to say that in the years past, distributors would fight a lot to get a market and take a great deal of trouble to make the film a success, but corporate companies don’t take much trouble.
These distributors today have become as thin and invisible as lizards, he said. But they are good people. But corporate companies are as predatory as crocodiles and will eat you up. Now because of the economic recession they are laying low, he added. And this was a good thing, and it would be good if they continued to be low key.
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