T. Sriram Adittya always loved narrating stories. An engineer who wanted to make movies, the 26-year-old Hyderabadi was sure that he would pursue his passion and work on making a movie the day he had a script ready.
Sriram, who wrote and directed Sudheer Babu’s next, Bhale Manchi Roju, had been making short films while he was pursuing engineering, a few of which also won awards. After passing out, he worked in the advertising department of Google, followed by Facebook. It took two years for Sriram to call it quits and pursue his passion. A year after quitting his job, he was ready with the script of Bhale Manchi Roju.
“While working at Facebook, I simultaneously wrote a script. It was for a multi-starrer, but it never worked out. I took feedback about the story from a lot of people, and got an idea about what works. I then wrote the script for Bhale Manchi Roju in about four months. I met producers Vijay Kumar Reddy and Shashidhar Reddy and narrated the script.”
The movie revolves around what happens in the hero’s life on a particular day, the people he comes across, the incidents that change his life. And not just Adittya, his whole team is young and have come up with many fresh ideas, making this movie different from other masala scripts in Tollywood.
“Debutants Arjun and Carthyk, who are 26 years old, have written the dialogues and they too had started with short films. My co-director Sriram, who is my childhood friend, was in the industry for two years,” says Sriram adding, “The direction department has many debutants and also has four youngsters who just finished engineering and a few who quit their jobs to join the team.”
But why the extra attention on hiring young talent? “I had no experience in the industry… I was looking for fresh ideas and a group that was open to something new. An experienced person knows what works in the industry and what doesn’t, and he would straightaway say that a particular thing wouldn’t work. But the newcomers won’t have a clue, only the enthusiasm to make things happen. The whole team has youngsters aged 26 or below, so they are very energetic.”
Sriram also informs that the movie was shot in just 50 days. And at times they just walked into a crowded place to shoot, in order to make it look more real.
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