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Yeh rishtaa -- Meenaxi
Meenaxi was a cultural learning experience for me. I remembered my stage show days when we had to attend cultural programmes and be part of the contemporary lot. There’s so much of culture in that setup: Santosh Sivan behind the camera; Sharmista Roy, the set designer; A R Rahman's music.
Every shot was a learning experience because everything was part of a painting. Colours were a dominant factor in the songs.
Husain’s son Owes and his wife Rina are great people: non-filmi, not biased and have a great aesthetic sense. Owes would suddenly start painting the cracked grounds of Jaisalmer!
Choreographing this song was very confusing initially. I had to get rid of all my preconceived notions about choreography because they [the Husains] came from a different school. I had to come to their wavelength. It took a couple of discussions for me to understand it.
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I had worked with Tabu in Filhaal, so we had established a rapport. Most of the time we were clueless. We would have a question mark on our faces as to what are we doing! It was all in Husainsaab’s head. We did not have a bound script. It was not constructed in the typical film format.
The filming approach was very different. It was the passion of the painter and until he had painted it, the viewer has no clue what it was going to be.
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