AGALU
Agalu happened to become my first professional short film in
my life. I written the script on 2018 and the movie released in January 1 2019.
Agalu is based on extra marital affairs and the story moves through Agosh who
is an electrician & married to Amalu many years ago and they both were not
happy because of kids they got. And especially Agosh were in depression because
of that & same time he meets a girl named Nileena with whom he finds
happiness to defeat his depression of not able to reproduce. And when this
affair gets to know to his wife Amalu she decides to divorce him, their
conversations & their feelings is the story.
I shot Agalu in Nelligudde Lake, Bidadi. I chosen Ashwath
Reddy to do the Male Lead role (Ashwath Reddy is one the person who applied for
Acting roles through my Quikr Ad ‘Actors Required’ for Sakarathmaka Movie. And
he has been touch with me since 2015 & he were a person who doesn’t know
anything about Acting but very much interested to do something to become an
Actor. It was very tough for him to say dialogues in kannada even though he
knew kannada. I don’t know, when I was saying dialogues to let him know how to
say, he was saying it, but when I switch on the camera, he was feeling nervous
and tension & due to that he was unable to say any dialogues properly. May
be he was so concerned about camera, me & especially not to make any errors
while pronouncing.
And I was so disappointed when I did finished the shoot,
there is no performance video I can choose from the recorded footages, so I
just decided to re shoot again with him by explaining more in detail how to
pronounce and deliver dialogues naturally. And while re shoot he tried his best
and he did something natural which can be taken to make the movie. And then we
were looking for heroines, he suggested many, and selected some, but they were
unavailable on the day of shoot. And finally we got Kushi Gowda (Aka Pavitra)
who belongs to Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru. And she came and we shot in Cubbon park
Bengaluru from morning 12pm to evening. She was very excited and interested to
do that character & dialogues and all she just delivered well naturally
& she was asking weather I wanted to take one more shot for better version.
And then the interior scene of Nileena character we shot in a Farmhouse which
is located in Hennur Bande, nearby Horamavu where I was staying that time. For
the character of Nileena we got Rekha who is a friend of Ashwath & she
arrived to my home & we did the shoot well with Rekha & Ashwath Reddy.
When I written the script I wanted Harshitha Kallingal (One of the Person who
applied to my Quikr ad in 2015 ‘required Actors’ for Sakarathmaka project) to
cast as Female lead, and I sent script to her & she read & agreed to do
the project. I called her for taking photographs of her with Ashwath as to show
Hero & Heroine’s quality times together which is were necessary for the
movie to show the background of beginning titles. Harshitha Kallingal arrived
cubbon park & I took Harshitha’s & Ashwath’s photos together. And then
after few days when I planned to shoot , Harshitha became busy in some other
projects and I was not able to wait for her dates and that’s why I just looked
forward and then Khushi Gowda replaced her.
The background music for Agalu is purchased from Musicvine.com
and the approximate budget of that movie is 25000 (including camera rental
charges, food & transport). Agalu is
shot using entry level Dslr Canon1300D & the quality of that camera is not
good, but I used the camera in as good as possible without getting any shaky
shots or distortions or blur.
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