Thanks Pavithra, About your titbid: Mani Ratnam directing PS? I just remembered your mail on that.... pudhu makkalum adha therinjukattume.... Dear all...
Waare wah! Sreeram, the casting- particularly the Hollywood part of it was cool:-) My half a cent's worth- we could put in Sivakumar(when he was young) for Arulmozhi's part.
As for Manirathnam directing PS- right from the time the story starts, from the midnight conference in Kadambur- everything will be in darkness. All the conversations will be in fits and starts, and characters will talk with curious jerks. Example:
When Kundavai meets VD in the siraisaalai (3rd paagam), and swears on her love to him:
The place is in darkness. Sounds of tigers growling, and gaurds talking in the distance. Kundavai's face can be seen dimly, beyond the bars. VD is staring at her out of wide eyes. Perspiration gleams on his forehead.
Kundavai: onnu theriyumaa?
VD: enna? enna?
Kundavai: maattom. nenaikka maattom.
VD (blinks): enna solringa? aang?
K: puriyalai? (she lowers her head and suddenly grins)
K: ungalai nenaicitten. vera yaaraiyum nenaikka maatten.
VD (dumbstruck): aaahhh...
K: enna purushaa? okvaa?
VD faints.
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:-)))Not that Manirathnam won't do a good job out of it. He has his good points (alaipayuthe is one of my all-time favourites). This conversation was just a joke, so Sreeram, please don't take offense.:-)