While recollecting an incident during the
shooting, Bala mentioned that a Sadhu visited
the spot after hearing the song ‘Orumuraya
Irumuraya’ composed by Ilayaraja and
did not leave place until the song was over.
“He hails from northern India and
did not understand a word of Tamil, however,
I could see tears running down his cheeks
towards the end of the song,” Bala
said. The Sadhu touched Bala’s feet
before leaving mentioning that he could
decipher the meaning of the song without
understanding the language. “Such
was the power of music and that was when
I realized Ilayaraja’s music has no
boundaries,” Bala further added.
Bala has brought to light the lives of
Agory Sadhus, who are said to be cannibals
surviving on the dead in the banks of Ganges,
for the first time in Indian cinema. The
movie also focuses on the lives of physically
and mentally challenged people and beggars.
“I wanted to employ real people in
the movie and hence we had to interact with
such people a lot to make them deliver the
dialogues perfectly,” Bala revealed.
There are scenes of Arya consuming Pooja’s
dead body (and Arya plays an Agory) which
might invite trouble from the censor board.
However, Bala has an equally powerful climax
scene in hand just in case the censor officials
raise concern. Besides, Bala revealed that
the climax fight scene took about one month
to shoot. “The fight scenes will be
real and we had to work for a month to that
effect,” Bala was quoted as saying.
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