Movie editor Praveen KL talked about his expertise working with filmmaker Thiagarajan Kumararaja on his breakout debut function, ‘Aaranya Kaandam’
It has been 10 years since Aaranya Kaandam, a uncommon noir movie in Tamil that launched the arrival of filmmaker Thiagarajan Kumararaja, had its world première on the South Asian Worldwide Movie Pageant. In a latest Instagram live with Metroplus, movie editor Praveen KL, who the Nationwide Award for Greatest Movie Enhancing for Aaranya Kaandam alongside together with his co-editor NB Srikanth, shared nuggets of his reminiscences.
Authentic reduce
The ultimate reduce of Aaranya Kaandam was someplace near 123 minutes, earlier than it rubbed the Censor Board the incorrect aspect. We have been urged 56 cuts! The one that’s at the moment obtainable on the digital platform is a foul model and I recommend you not see it in any respect. A satellite tv for pc tv, to which the rights have been bought, has the official censored model of the movie. However we’ve been attempting to carry out the unique, uncut model of Aaranya Kaandam. In actual fact, we’ve pitched to a few OTT gamers and have additionally been planning to carry out a Telugu model.
The lengthy quick
A movie often takes about two months of my time, however this one took about 9 months on account of its complexity and the involvement that Kumar [Thiagarajan Kumararaja] had. I nonetheless bear in mind there was this explicit sequence [the rooster fight] that was difficult for us to chop. There have been 21 completely different variations of the scene and we needed to take the decision.
An unused romantic quantity
The scene the place Sappai [Ravi Krishna] takes Subbu [Yasmin Ponnappa] out for a date had a music initially. Within the movie, you see an animated Mario-styled sequence that includes the duo. We have been all followers of Mario [laughs]. However that was presupposed to have a romantic music and Yuvan, the truth is, had composed one. The music, nonetheless, was not used within the movie and was later utilized in Thirudan Police.
Old-fashioned method
The climax battle that includes Pasupathy [Sampath Raj] and Gajapathy [Sai Dheena] was supposed to provide the really feel of watching a Spaghetti Western. There was one explicit monitor from a Mexican Spaghetti Western, which acted as a base for this scene. I feel it was an Antonio Banderas’ movie. In the event you take a look at the rhythm of the scene, the variety of pictures, or the way in which it’s edited, it’s just like the Mexican movie.
Kumar had two endings for the climax on paper. We even considered an alternate ending with Subbu being hit by the lorry. Fortunately, Kumar caught to the unique ending. It was an-anti climax and it might have spoiled the euphoria that you just acquired out of the movie. The movie’s primary idea was: underdog has to triumph. That’s the reason I informed Kumar: ‘Let’s have a shot of her strolling into the sundown.’ The sundown, the truth is, was created throughout put up manufacturing.
As informed to Srivatsan S
