Surya Vasishta opens his innings on screen as a director, writer, actor with the Kannada film, Saramsha

Surya Vasishta with Sruti Hariharan in a nonetheless from the movie
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Software program engineer Surya Vasishta all the time dreamt of turning into an actor. His dream got here true with the Kannada sequence, Jogula (Zee Kannada, 2008). He additionally donned the titular function of Sai Baba for Kasturi TV. The hurdles he confronted didn’t deter him. “Which occupation is devoid of challenges?” says Surya. “As soon as I found the thrill of storytelling, I couldn’t consider doing the rest.”

Surya, runs a company movie studio, Astu Studios, which brings in his bread and butter. He has labored for movies together with U-Flip and Gantu Moote. “I’m captivated with appearing and every thing that surrounds filmmaking.” Surya now makes his debut as a number one man in Saramsha that he has additionally written and directed.

On the units of the movie
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The movie, Surya says, revolves round a author, who meets the characters of his tales. “The topic revolves across the concept of studying and telling tales. Once we end a e book, all we’re left with are the feelings linked with the e book and its abstract. That’s the reason the title Saramsha.”

An avid reader, Surya describes a line of dialogue within the movie. and provides: “It goes like this — ‘I’m a abstract of my feelings and experiences’. I consider, on the finish of the day I’m only a label.”

Working as an assistant director for Agni Sreedhar’s Thamassu, was when a spark got here alive for Surya. “The expertise of dwelling by way of the feelings of the characters you create in the course of the writing course of after which seeing an actor breathe life into this character, fascinated me. It was an odd battle —  is character I created actual or the actor who performs it? That’s what triggered off the method of Saramsha. The connection a author has together with his characters is what stayed in my thoughts and that’s how the premise grew to become a screenplay.”

Surya Vasishta, the actor, author and director
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Saramsha, which releases on February 15, has been predominantly shot in Bengaluru with some parts in Manipal. It’s produced by Ravi Kashyap (Vibha Kashyap Productions) and RK Nallam (Klapboard Productions). “The movie doesn’t have a music director’s credit score, however we have now two composers who’ve accomplished music for us. The songs have been composed by Udith Haritas, whereas the background rating is by Aparajith Sris,” says Surya. The movie additionally has a debut cinematographer in Ananth Bharadwaj. 

Deepak Subramanya, Sruti Hariharan and Shweta Gupta star within the movie. “I began off simply writing the story. I wished to be part of the movie as an actor, however didn’t write the script protecting myself in thoughts. Once I began exploring what explicit story I wished to inform on display, this explicit story unfolded itself on my paper. Sruti got here on board as she is an outdated good friend from Lucia days.”

Surya was part of the Lucia crowd-funding marketing campaign and co-founded Dwelling Talkies with director Pawan Kumar. “Sruti being a nationwide award winner was an extra perk. I’ve identified Deepak from his Ayana days. It was his debut as a number one man and the movie received the State Award. I discovered him versatile. Since that is additionally my directorial debut, I appeared out for actors with whom I shared a sure consolation stage.”

Saramsha, Surya says, may have many psychological layers. “I consider it’s a mixture of an emotional drama and magical realism. Magical, as a result of it has a number of magical components, and actual, as a result of it isn’t a fantasy. The movie is about within the on a regular basis, in a world the place everybody can connect with the world on display and the characters. Because the story revolves round books, I wished that facet mirrored on display, therefore, there will likely be a metaphorical facet. The movie’s tagline, ‘You can’t discover closure to your story if another person is writing it,’ echoes this thought.”