excited as me now?? well coming back to this fan girl thing, I myself don't know that I would have jump to him from being another hero's fan girl. Aaah.. Some magic must have changed me. lol. Well in another 48 hours Yennamo Yedho gonna release with another 3 movies.. And all I want now is, we Gautham fans seriously wants this movie to do well in boxoffice. Okay the reasons I want it to be a HIT is , first of all Gautham in it. And secondly it's an hit telugu movie Ala Modalaindi's remake. This story actually have a big history behind the makings of Ala Modalindi.. Well will bring some to old live now. And before that. Now this movie is on progress in remaking it in Kannada too.. So just imagine it.. Okay coming to the OLD Live now, which were personally said by the awesome director Nandini Reddy, a few years back..
The Development Process
- It started with the idea of two people (belonging to opposite sex) meeting in a crisis situation. It will be more interesting than a boy meeting a girl in a regular way. I was in Chennai at that time and discussing with Anjana Ali Khan (director of Tamil film Veppam). The basic seed of the story came out of that conversation. I gave a 10-minute narration to Nani and he said that its awesome. We wanted to title the movie as 'Prema Thokka Tholu'. I am basically a lazy writer. Hence, Anjana threatened me by putting a deadline of 10 days to complete the script. I wanted the scenes, characters and characterisations come out of the experiences from my life and the from the people I have observed. To stay in that zone/space, I repeatedly watched Friends, When Harry Met Sally and A Lot Like Love during that period. I wrote a 60-scenes order on a pair of yellow papers. I write very little on paper for a scene (a couple of lines for a scene as most of the content is there in my head). I don’t want to slow down my mind while writing as our mind works faster than our hand
Choosing The Cast
*as told by the Original Director Nandini Reddy*
- John Abraham – Asish Vidyardhi I wanted to take the film to next level and I felt that I needed one more layer. I watched a film titled 'In July' in my initial days. In that film a guy is carrying a dead body to cross the border. Another guy takes a lift, but notices the dead body. The entire film is about misrepresentation. I took that movie as reference and created a character called 'John Abraham' who is a professional kidnapper. I wanted to derive humor by showing the human angle in him. I have also used John Abraham character to ask the questions to Nani on the behalf of audiences
- I liked the layer of Johan Abraham character, but the entire team is not convinced about it. That idea was put in cold-storage. After the 3rd schedule of the film, a friend and a co-director Srinivas came to the sets. I narrated him the John Abraham thread. Srinivas loved it and convinced the producer by talking to him. Since it involves casting a notable actor, it is a big decision to the producer. Asish Vidyardhi was my original preference. But tried Prakash Raj as I personally know him. Prakash Raj loved the character but said that he is playing a similar character in Orange movie. Then I spoke to Asish Vidyardhi and narrated the script. He loved it and quoted his price. It was unaffordable to the producer. After a few days, Asish Vidyardhi called us again and lowered him remuneration.
- Scrat – Ramesh I used to love the scrat character in Ice Age movie. Scrat character has nothing to do with the story of Ice Age, but creates chaos. I wanted to create such a character for my movie. Producer Damu suggested that we should have a guy hit with recession. Writer Bhupal said that we should have a drunken character. It was Bhupal who suggested Ramesh for that character. Ramesh worked for Mahatma and Bheemili in the past, but didn’t get any recognition. He is a simple and hardworking boy. His work in Ala Modalaindi is being appreciated well.
- Shooting of the climax was very difficult as we have many character, links and threads. Writer Anil Ravipudi provided great help in climax. Introduction of Sneha Ullal’s character Anjana pointed out that Nani’s character is always rejected by all the girls. He should reject a girl by choice (not by destiny). That’s how we created the character of Sneha Ullal.
And for me this was the only movie that gained 4.5 star reviews with over night.
Now from Ala Modalaindi coming back to Yennamo Yedho, we will have Gautham Karthik in lead role as Gautham while Rakul Preet as the heroine playing the role done by Nithya Menen. And this will be her debut movie in Tamil.. While Nikesha Patel's character I'm not so sure of it whether she's doing the characters done by Sneha Ullal or Kriti Kharbanda. And more over we wll be having Prabu sir in a major role which was originally done by Ashish Vidhyarthi sir in telugu. This character is one of the most favouritest one for me. In this movie you can expect for sentiments, love, family bonding, mother-son love, humours and comedy as well.
So amigos get your tickets for yennamo Yedho which is all set to release this friday 25th April. Thank u :)
