Coming up with Musa’s story when head is high, told to stop after 15 minutes: Suresh Gopi
Suresh Gopi talks about the long process before deciding to do a film. In an interview to Mathrubhumi, Suresh Gopi said that he will say yes to a film only after hearing the story and the script.
‘Normally I don’t ask about the script. Take half an hour or an hour to listen to the story. After listening to the story, there is a cooling period. When I stand under the shower even though it’s May, I think about what is behind it and what are its possibilities and what is challenging for me. After a week or two of thinking it over, ask the storyteller if they wrote the script. If I don’t write it, I will read the script and say I will tell it.
Now if the script is written, it takes three to four hours, sometimes six hours to read the script. If there is interest in it, when do you intend to do it, who is needed, you will get all of them, and in that way it will turn into production. That’s how it’s usually done.
But this is the time I’ve been scratching my head over the whole issue of natives. At that time all of them come to Keri at ten o’clock at night. He told me to stop after 15 minutes of telling the story. When asked if it was written, it has been written and the script is also in hand. He told me to start reading it. That’s not been said in this one season.
You agreed to do it even when Anoop came with the story of the movie Varane Prathamund. Even when Kaval’s story came, he was told to bring it as a script. Papan’s story was told in half an hour. When I asked if there was a script, he said there was. I read it in three and a half hours. Nothing was said to them. Joshietan called and asked when he would do it. Such is its historiography.
After hearing the whole story, he said he would do it anyway. There was no producer then. After two days he came with the producer. He said that there was a period when I was kicked for six years, and with that in mind, I should bring someone else into it. Jibu had a similar experience with Vellimunga too. Jibu said I didn’t mean that. Then he got rid of him and another person came,’ said Suresh Gopi.
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