Monday 21 April 2008

Director's cut

I find Directors of anything -be it serials or movies - to be really impressive characters themselves. Just observing them at work, or listening to their interviews can be an insight into the intelligent beings that they are. They are such great observers of humanity and emotions, abstract things and the analogies they may me exploited for, and their ability to think on their feet when something in their bound scripts go wrong.

Most of all, their energy to create.

I asked one director I was working with in between the scenes, after seeing him run around getting things done at 4am in the studio - 'Sir , from where do you get all this energy from ?' 'Nuclear power ?' I suggested.

And he replied without thinking for long "Vairagyam power", and went on to direct his next scene ! (Vairagyam ~ Strong willed perseverance)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Doesn't vairagyam imply being proud of one's work? Or is it perseverance?

AruneM said...

yeah..strong will and pride. i could not translate it accurately. in this case, that gave birth to the perseverance.