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You have been around for two decades in the industry. When you see youngsters succeed, do you feel the pressure to match up to them? <\/h4>\n

People are lenient with newcomers, and that\u2019s justified. They get accepted with grace marks for their attempts. My minute blunders get highlighted\u00a0and criticised\u00a0because I am very experienced. When a young filmmaker succeeds, I receive phone calls from critics and industry members asking me to feel inspired by them. My works get compared with theirs. That said, I have rallied behind several gifted rookie directors because I was also once a youngster with great energy to make a difference in the industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You made two back-to-back entertainers (\u2018Mungaru Male\u2019 and \u2018Gaalipata\u2019) without a definite plot structure. Were you at your best as a writer back then? <\/h4>\n

I can never call myself a perfect writer, but I think I have cracked poetry\/lyric writing. While writing a song, I wrestle with my thoughts and bring out my maximum creativity to produce seven to eight lines. Many things are unsaid in a song, yet people must understand the lines. A song cannot be too academic. I think I have learnt to balance these two aspects. However, I am still learning to write the perfect script. There are hundreds of books on writing a screenplay. When do you introduce a conflict? Should the\u00a0protagonist always have a purpose? Why should there be a love story in commercial movies? I keep thinking about these aspects of storytelling. I get questioned about why I don\u2019t stick to the so-called traditional grammar of a film\u2019s structure. I want to attempt a film on the unexplored emotions of human beings.<\/p>\n

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Do you still write on sets? Directors like Vetrimaaran in Tamil adapts to the location and actors and writes dialogues on sets…<\/h4>\n

I started writing dialogues on sets after watching Suri do it for\u00a0Junglee\u00a0<\/i>(2009). The film won the State Award for Best Screenplay. When I saw the movie on the editing table, I was shocked to see how effective the dialogues were. I wrote Mungaru Male, Pancharangi,<\/i>\u00a0Paramathma,\u00a0<\/i>andDrama<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>on sets. I had a basic one-line story for those films. In one way, it\u2019s effective because you sometimes get your best when you are spontaneous. I stopped this habit because the team suffered a lot. It\u2019s torture for the actors to wait for the dialogues as they are ready to enact a scene. I had to respect their time and energy. A slight modification to the dialogues is okay, but I have stopped taking the\u00a0risk of writing the entire movie on the sets.<\/p>\n

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The music in your song continues to make waves. Can you ever do a film without songs? <\/h4>\n

I keep thinking about a film without a song. However, I have a special connection with people as a lyricist. They expect a lot from my songs. Abandoning music in movies will be like cutting\u00a0a strong link with the audience. Yet, I might use songs as a promotional tool and make a movie without any songs.<\/p>\n

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Over the years, the Puneeth Rajkumar-starrer \u2018Paramathma\u2019 has been your most talked-about movie. Were you disappointed when it didn\u2019t do well in theatres?<\/h4>\n

I wish it had done well when it was released. So many scenes from the film are shared today on social media. Recently, we visited a medical college to promote\u00a0Manada Kadalu.\u00a0<\/i>After interacting with the students, I was smoking outside the college when I saw a student walking past me. She looked disturbed for some reason. When she saw me, she smiled as she said \u2018Paramathma\u2018. That\u2019s the impact of the movie. For some, whatever films I do,\u00a0Paramathma\u00a0<\/i>will remain their favourite.\u00a0Perhaps, when the movie was released, people didn\u2019t have the mindset to take the film\u2019s subject. Some films will eventually find their audience.\u00a0Paramathma\u00a0<\/i>has achieved that.<\/p>\n

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