My 3rd Film as Assistant Director ''Interview'' (Malayalam) in 1973

My 3^rd film as Asst.Director was Evershine Productions,’  ‘’Interview’’  in 1973

 Star Cast : Prem Nazir, Jayabharathi, Bahadoor, Adoor Bhasi Lyrics-Vayalar Music-Dhakshina moorthy Director-Sasikumar

Production Executive Mr.Nambiar picked me from my home and we went to meet Mr. S .L. Puram Sadanandans the script writer of ‘’Interview’’.  His house was in K.K.Nagar, Chennai. Nambiar introduced me to S. L. Puram. After a formal talk he handed over the script of ‘’Interview’’ to me. From there we went to Evershine office in Ashok Nagar. He appointed Sukumaran from production unit as my production boy to serve me coffee and lunch. I started copying script.  I completed  copying of the script, scheduling the break down, preparing  property list, one line script and List of the dresses for the entire film in three days. I handed over one copy of the script to Sasi sir. He asked my opinion about the script. I told him it’s full of family drama and a ladies oriented film and I liked the story very much. He instructed me to keep a copy of the script with me and go through it every night and come with suggestions for the shooting. Then onwards, Sasi kumar Sir lent his ears to my suggestions and improvised the stories of the films.  Baby chettan (LISSA BABY Super hit director) is the Associate director of the film , Producer Tirupathy chettiyar’s second son, Lakshmanan was the In-charge of Production and he fixed my salary as RS.1500.  We finished the film within 25 days. Most of the scenes were shot in Shyamala Studios. For most part of the film we had to work at night shifts in Shyamala Studios due to the shortage of Nassir sir’s call sheets. Even now it’s scary to think how we were working in the olden  days in night hours. We had to bear with the bites of giant mosquitoes. Hats off to great Nassir sir, who bear the bites of mosquitoes and worked with us with patience .  ‘Interview’ is emotional family drama. Adoor Bhasi, the comedy actor made a negative role with comedy in this film.

During that period at the time of censoring we had to submit the censor script.The script was written in the night hours only viz.,12midnight  to morning 6.Iused to run every reel  in the movieola and mark shots with footage in the script.I was very busy in that period. After the shooting time in the day shift I will work for editing till night 12 and after 12 till morning I was working writing script. I worked like this for 8 years. It was a nice experience working with Baby chettan. He was very loveable and always he taught me a lot of things like how to behave with Leading Artistes and how to teach acting to actors and actresses. The film was released and it was a super hit in the box-office .