Getting through to South India’s most sought after professional stuntmen is nearly impossible. “Saar is shooting, and cannot be disturbed,” is their assistants’ usual response. Easily the most popular stunt director, Chennai-based Vietnamese-fight sequence coordinator Peter Hains is a veritable idol there. But he’s in Malaysia on work and won’t be back for ten days. Filmmaker S.S. Stanley, who assisted Mani Ratnam in Raavan/Ravanan (and has worked with Hains) insists that when it comes to action sequences and stunts, the South Indian film industry is much ahead of its Bollywood counterparts technically and thematically. Take the bridge scene in Mani Ratnam’s Raavan. ...
- 7/3/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
He’s badly in need of rest and nothing is going to compensate with his health. The filmmaker had a very tough time while filming his trilingual film ‘Raavanan’ and that could have been the reason letting buzzes open that it was his associate directors Azhagam Perumal and S.S. Stanley completing few portions.
There are more mixed reviews for the films and the box office collections are proving to be good at certain standards while poor in B and C centres. Meanwhile, there is a news spreading from Manirathnam’s office that he has got 3 scripts: one Simbhu to be shot in exotic foreign locations and another one for Dhanush tentatively titled as ‘Pookada’ and the final script, a big bang action packed thriller drama.
The biggest question is that whether he will be directing this film or else just produces it for his protégés or some of the ace filmmakers.
There are more mixed reviews for the films and the box office collections are proving to be good at certain standards while poor in B and C centres. Meanwhile, there is a news spreading from Manirathnam’s office that he has got 3 scripts: one Simbhu to be shot in exotic foreign locations and another one for Dhanush tentatively titled as ‘Pookada’ and the final script, a big bang action packed thriller drama.
The biggest question is that whether he will be directing this film or else just produces it for his protégés or some of the ace filmmakers.
- 6/24/2010
- by Editor
- KollywoodToday
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