Sketches drawn by C.R.
Velu and team have been used as background
If you have watched the
trailer of ‘Kochadaiiyaan’, you might recall an action sequence where superstar
Rajinikanth fights off hyenas inside a prison.
The background for the
particular scene, and several others, is the result of hard work put in by a
team of 120 artists and architects led by artist C.R. Velu.
“We spent about a
month-and-a-half travelling around the country, studying palaces and taking
high-resolution photographs of walls, pillars, statues, furniture and other
things used in the times of yore,” said C.R. Velu.
This is his second film as
art director. Velu has earlier worked as assistant art director in 33 films,
including ‘Vasool Raja MBBS’ and ‘Dhool’. His first film as art director was
‘Thoranai’ and the third one is ‘Aaha Kalyanam’.
“It was fantastic to be
selected to work on ‘Kochadaiiyaan’. I also had the opportunity to speak with
Rajini sir. He was very interested in our work,” he said.
The artists drew at least
20 kinds of bows and arrows for the film’s hero.
“In the case of live-action
movies, if a song sequence is needed, we need to simply make a drawing and give
them a copy to make the sets. But in this film, the artists had to create
everything, apart from the actors, so we had to make plenty of drawings.”
Velu has a room full of
drawing sheets with sketches made for Kochadaiiyaan. Everything, from the
chariots and war scenes to mountains, harbours and forests, has been created by
the artists.
Ask Velu if he is
satisfied with his work, he says he is waiting for the film to be released.
“We don’t know which
scenes were used and which ones were edited out. Like my four-year-old daughter
who likes animation films, I too am waiting to watch it,” he said.
Kochadaiiyaan, a
performance-capture animation, photo-realistic film, is slated for release on
April 11.
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