![]() Kamal and director Singeetam apparently were not pleased with the way the script was shaping up and so sent an SOS for him. The film’s writer, the late Panju Arunachalam, in an interview said that he was roped in by Kamal after the film was started and even shot for a few days. Though we know today that the film became a super duper hit and endeared itself to the masses, Apoorva Sagodharargal had its own share of fits and starts. It was not easy and yet the team pulled it off brilliantly. By folding Kamal’s legs at times, using specially designed shoes at times, choosing deft camera angles in some scenes, avoiding certain camera angles in others, digging up trenches to cover Kamal’s legs up to the knees and camouflaging the same in the frame at times, shifting the focus of the audience to other elements in the frame rather than on Kamal at times and so on. However, in Apoorva Sagodharargal, the dwarf look was achieved in different ways. Given that it released in 2018, it was relatively easy to make the actor undergo that transformation by just using optical illusion techniques like Forced perspective and so on. In the Hindi film Zero which released last year, Shah Rukh Khan played the role of a dwarf as well. I remember Kamal saying in interviews that the making of the film, with all its challenges in those days, could become the subject of an interesting book or a documentary! But, one must admit that it would have taken a lot of courage to do so in an era when there was no computer graphics to aid the visual effects. It’s not difficult for an average adult sized person to play a dwarf character in these times of technological advances. ![]()
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