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Gautham Menon
Indian
Director
Born:
Feb 25
,
1973
Am
Film
Films
Like
Me
Will
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There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.
Gautham Menon
Thoughts
Writing
Coffee
Nothing
Corner
Like
Begin
Quiet
Shop
Quite
Your
Gather
All the women close to me - my mother, sister, wife and friends - are strong and independent.
Gautham Menon
Me
Women
Strong
Mother
Wife
Sister
Independent
Friends
Close
It's just that I can write something nice is what motivates me.
Gautham Menon
Me
Nice
Something
Write
Motivates
Just
And I'm not homophobic.
Gautham Menon
Homophobic
Yennai Arindhaal' is perhaps the quickest film in my career.
Gautham Menon
Perhaps
Film
Career
If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be someone from the police or the Army.
Gautham Menon
Army
Police
Action
Someone
Only
Tale
Protagonist
Him
Around
Revolve
Imagine
I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.
Gautham Menon
Politics
Hierarchy
Easy
Understand
Bureaucracy
Managing
Most of the romance in my films has been inspired by my father.
Gautham Menon
Father
Films
Has-Been
Inspired
Most
Been
Romance
I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs.
Gautham Menon
Worrying
Plot
About
Write
Points
Without
Whim
Scripts
What you feel about a film is what you feel when you're in love with a woman. You fight for her love and it's always a struggle... there are misunderstandings and you're always trying to prove that there's more to you.
Gautham Menon
Love
You
Struggle
Woman
Fight
About
More
Feel
Always
Misunderstandings
Prove
Trying
Film
Her
I go straight into shooting with a script that's 80 per cent complete and I wait for my characters to grow on me before I finalise the climax.
Gautham Menon
Me
Wait
Before
Complete
Characters
Per
Climax
Go
Shooting
Cent
Script
Straight
Grow
The only aspect I'd probably change in some of my films is the death of the heroine. I wish I'd kept some of them alive.
Gautham Menon
Death
Change
Wish
Films
Heroine
Alive
Some
Only
Them
Aspect
Kept
In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.
Gautham Menon
Life
Love
Everybody
Melancholy
Danger
Sorrow
Well
Might
If I am going to be afraid of the criticisms that my films get, I am never going to make films.
Gautham Menon
Films
Criticisms
Never
Make
Am
Get
Going
Afraid
How the audience as a collectivity feels about a movie is important.
Gautham Menon
Important
About
Feels
Audience
How
Movie
It is in college that one gathers confidence as the mind is open to ideologies.
Gautham Menon
Confidence
Mind
College
Open
Ideologies
One reason why I've taken 11 years to make my second Hindi film is because I am comfortable working with the stars in the South, as they are with me.
Gautham Menon
Me
Stars
Taken
Make
Hindi
Comfortable
Because
Am
Years
South
Working
Reason
Film
Why
Second
In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.
Gautham Menon
Feel
Like
Stranger
Mumbai
Ranbir was my first choice for 'Ek Deewana Tha.' I tried to get in touch in with. Forget about meeting Ranbir. I couldn't even meet his secretary. Yes, even the secretary refused to meet me.
Gautham Menon
Me
First
Meet
Meeting
Secretary
Tried
About
Touch
His
Yes
Forget
Get
Refused
Choice
Even
Vipul Shah wanted me to do the Hindi adaptation of my film 'Kaakha Kaakha.' I declined the offer.
Gautham Menon
Me
Hindi
Offer
Wanted
Declined
Film
Adaptation
Though I'm happy with the response to the film, I've been hearing the feedback that 'Yennai Arindhaal' has traces of my earlier films. It was meant to be like that. Since it's part of a trilogy, hence the reference to the other two films in the franchise.
Gautham Menon
Happy
Feedback
Films
Other
Franchise
Though
Response
Trilogy
Part
Since
Like
Traces
Been
Reference
Hearing
Meant
Meant To Be
Hence
Film
Earlier
Two
The lead character in 'Yennai Arindhaal' is like an extension of the protagonists of 'Kaakha Kaakha' and 'Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu.'
Gautham Menon
Character
Lead
Lead Character
Like
Protagonists
Extension
Ekk Deewana Tha' will have a surprise ending to watch out for.
Gautham Menon
Ending
Will
Out
Surprise
Watch
Bollywood is a different ballgame. I am quite used to Tamil and Telugu films.
Gautham Menon
Films
Telugu
Am
Ballgame
Quite
Different
Used
Bollywood
I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.
Gautham Menon
Would
Indian
Like
Make
South
Languages
Film
Four
The industry doesn't usually say nice things about my work. My films take a while till they are accepted as good and I think 'Yennai Arindhaal' too will go through that phase.
Gautham Menon
Work
Good
Will
Nice
Think
Films
Too
Say
About
Through
Take
Industry
Accepted
Till
Go
While
Nice Things
Things
Phase
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