Let me share a secret with you. Of late I have been dreaming of make a movie !. Inspiration came from none other than you know who;especially his talk about actors and films.
I decided to present the matter for his opinion. i mustered up all the courage and did that.
'' I want to make a film''. In one sentence I gave it to him.I didnot look at him after delivering the blow.
As usual silence fell; without any breakages.
'' How did you get this idea ?'' the control in his voice was obvious. I could'nt control it any longer. I opened my heart out to him and poured forth; like John Keats did in 'Ode to nightingale'
'' My inspiration is from your tallk and the story reported in paper about the saga of marriage between Liz Hurley and Arun nayar.''
''Who are they?. Tell me how they inspired you.'' (to put it in a sequence) He asked and then said.
We Menons always put things in sequence ; force of habit. I requested his rapt attention as the story is little complicated. He agreed and I served it on a platter.
We Menons always serve in platters.
''It all started with LIz Hurtely's birth, growing to girl, becoming an adult, and finally a model and an actor at London.Almost at the same time another birth,that of Arun Nayar, took place in Sussex, and he also went through same stages of boy,adult etc but became a web designer. Till this point the story is fairly simple;just an example of two different people being born in different parts of U.K ( where Queen Elezabeth sat in the thorn for long years without injury) and growing in different directions like I and Kochappas.'' I paused and looked at him. He was listening. Encouraged, I continued.or I continued, encouraged; your choice.
'' Now the plot thickens a bit. Liz gets married to actor Hugh Grant and they live happily.
In Sussex Arun Nayar also gets married to an Italian actress , Valentina Petroni, and live happily.Years passed by, or fell off the caledar of their life without much noise.We Menons don't like noises even in stories.
The plot thickens. '' Hugh Grant, finding life little monotonous,started relaxing with Ms Hussley, another actress with un-developed mind and developed body.Almost at the same time Liz also finds her life bit monotonous , and starts relaxing with Steve Bing who produced movies.Steve Bing and Liz, in a joint venture, produced David their son.''
I had a glass of water and a peg of fresh air and continued.The plot thickens and darkens.
'' Meanwhile in Sussex, Petroni leaves her marriage, and Arun Nayar and proceeds in search of inner peace.Arun comes to London and sits on the banks of RiverThames.
Feeling little bit lonely ,he sings an old Mukesh number and after finishingthe song, spots Liz sitting alone singing a Stevie wonder number. Their lonely hearts understand each other. They relax in each other's company and decides to get married.Finally after going through litigations of divorces in their respective lives they get married, and the story ends with their arriving Palam airport in Delhi to board another Deccan Airways flight to Jaipur for honeymoon''
I didnot look at Kochappan. I didn't have the courage to do so. I waited for some response.
'' This is the story of your movie?'
'' Yes''.
'' Hmm, hmm''.came the response; that was like cold water in Sahara. I looked at him . he had a
faint smile on his lips.
''What next?'' He enquired. '' have you thought of a producer, director, cast crew etc for this?''
I have few people in my mind.and reluctantly I told him '' I will request Guru to produce the movie. The story of course is mine. Lyrics can be jointly written by two talents; Guru's wife and Jayashree. Both have written and proven to be good. I have the ad man Ravee in Arun's role. Iam yet to think of other actors, music director, director, hugh grant, Petroni etc.''
'' Come what may I will make a great movie and people are going to like it; like they accepted Padmarajan's , Basuchatterji's, or Maniratnam's movies'' I added .
He smiled and I left him to meet him on Monday. He didnot discourage me totally. But I didnot understand one statement he made about my comparison with Padmarajan etc.
'' Aniyan, people may not know much about cinema making, but they defenitely know
Chicken shit from Chicken salad''.
I didnot understand what has chicken got to do with my movie.
Anyway I will clarify on Monday.!!!
Menon ( aniyan )
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