Were you inspired by Abbas Kiarostamis Ten, as it too was shot on digital camera?
I saw Ten before shooting the film. Perhaps there is a hangover. I also remember reading Kiarostami’s interview on the digital revolution. I believe in digital technology. In fact I started with a blog where I wrote what I felt about Telugu cinema. I started getting responses from readers, which prompted me to make the movie. In fact, the trailers of the film were shown on Youtube, and had 30,000 hits. Then I used a digital projector to project the film. I am working towards a release on the Internet. Would you consider making this film as pure self-indulgence? In some ways, yes. Every cinema is. I can’t draw a line. If a director is not self-indulgent how will he get his personality across? It is a daring attempt no doubt, but one gets the impression that it is slightly lop-sided. Why? The film was meant to be dark. It is also inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s movies. The character was depressed and psychotic and therefore it had to be ‘noirish’. Since the character is psychotic, I had
