110: Vijay Deverakonda's Wildness Off and On-Screen made me Cast Him | Anand Shankar - a podcast by Film Companion

Anand Shankar, director of NOTA, talks about his learnings as an Assistant Director in Bollywood and in Tamil cinema. (He assisted Siddharth Anand in Anjaana Anjaani, and AR Murugadoss in Thuppakki and 7aum Arivu.) He talks about his sensibility and why his second film (Iru Mugan) was less "Hollywoody" than his first (Arima Nambi). He talks about whether a big star means compromises and his learnings from his two films. He discusses why the action choreography in our films is so unimaginative. He speaks about NOTA and casting Vijay Deverakonda (Arjun Reddy had something to do with it). And he discusses not having his star speak in the trailer.

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