Freak, adventurous, humble, practical … Any farmer can add adjectives under direction. It’s like his filmsVritiqritiilullah Chaturm, Avasavyuham, Purush PrathamAnd Sangarsha Ghadana – Art of War Or their new web series Possibuously Nalra Sangham (The Chronicles of the 4.5 Gang), From the title to the story and the story technique, he never surprises and makes you laugh and think. The way he weaves in nuances for characters, situations, dialogues, art, music, etc., if you can travel with him through the creative process then you wish.
But he simplifies all this, reduces the ordinance. When we catch a few days after release History of 4.5 gangs He admitted that he doubted how it would get, would the audience like it. “I was scared to read the reviews,” he says with laughter.
A poster of Emphasis Nalra Sangham Or History of 4.5 gangs
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In the six-episode gangster drama series that does not include a crime syndicate, we look at a group of common people who accidentally terminate in the world of crime, forming a unstable empire on Paytm crimes and rackets in which filking is connected to milk and local flowers control the market.
Set in Thiruvanchipuram, it washed gangster Arun Kumar or Arikutton (Sanju Shivram) – thus said because he once stole rice from the school kitchen – who contacts a writer, Mathrayan (Jagdish), who lives in Maharashtra, to pen his biography. Other gang members are Althaf (Niranj Manianpila Raju), Kanji (Srinath Babu), Manian (Sambhu) and Coral (Sachin Joseph), a small person to make ‘half’ of the group.
Filmmaker Krishnand at work | Photo Credit: Srerag
The farmer credited his days of origin in the Industrial Design Center School of Design in IIT Bombay, where he did his masters. “I was always in stories about aliens, time loops etc.. Once a teacher told me,” You are from Kerala and you are not saying anything about the place you have grown up? It will really help in your research because you will do this with your memory. ” So I read Bashir [Vaikom Mohammed Basheer]MT [MT Vasudevan Nair] And another. He killed me that I can tell the story of the place where I spent a large part of childhood. ,
The place is Thiruvananthapuram, where he was born till the age of 26 and was several small groups in the city, who created their business on illegal behavior associated with milk or flowers. I started writing a story in 2015, for which I helped some people gather. Thought with Sanju and Sasi Kumar [editor of the series],
Farmers say that they wrote some parts again based on the response of the platform. ,Avasavyuhm Till then it was ready. By the time Sony agreed, the film started receiving the award [eight of them, including the National and State awards]He acquired the film and later indicated green for the series. He makes a special mention of Soniliv’s creative team Deepa Antony and Annu Chelekad Masilmani, which lies for the series.
Sanju Shivram and Sambhu in Emphasis Nalra Sangham Or History of 4.5 gangs
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Decoding the structure of the series, Krishnand insisted what he always said – that he designs his work content. “I always want to try a new story trick or technology. In this case I did not want to tell it in a time -term. The idea was, if someone else wrote about arctan, he would be a villain. But if he writes his story? Then everything else is a villain. However, we don’t know that he only knows his version.”
He said, “I worked around an eco system-his family, parents’ business, their schools … to show how the socio-political-cultural landscape made them what they are. The story is an inherent sadness in the story because they always run away from people with power. They cannot lead a common life.”
When the real names were so clear, why did he go with the imaginary names of places? Like the Thiruvinchipuram for Thiruvanannanathapuram, Kamalakumari for Kanyakumari, Ilinjam for Vizinjam, or Ponakkav for Bonacoud. “Some illegal activities shown in the series have actually happened. Have we used real names, it would not have gone down well with many people. So we played it safely; besides we enjoyed using fictional names.”
About the artists, he was especially about not having his regular familiar faces. “Sanju has been a part of this project since its inception and became my choice for Arkutton. Sambhu worked in my series. Kraya vikraya prakriya And I knew that it would be easy for him to play Manian. Niranj’s name was suggested by our DOP Vishnu Prabhakar, who first worked with him. He felt that Niranj’s talent was not known and I went with his instinct. I met Srinath during me Vritakritiyal Ulla Chataram And felt that he would be perfect to play Kanji, a poor psycho! Sachin was cast by Sanupa Padesh [lead in Sangharshaghadana] Casting Agency. ,
In Emphasis Nalra Sangham Or History of 4.5 gangs
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More than 150 actors were selected through the casting process. As the Thiruvananthapuram dialect, the farmer says that Sanju picked it up because he worked in the city. Meanwhile, Sambhu, stayed in the city for a few months to learn it. “My main colleague Nikhil, who is from Thiruvananthapuram, trained most of the actors to get the right meter. I also picked up. We had a list of words that could be used. And we did not use some uses and words that were usually connected to Thiruvananthapuram. At the same time, I was not about digging,”
So how does his out-of-the-box style and idea process connect with actors? He says, “They rely on me because of the preparation made by me. I have a storyboard; usually I attract most scenes. They follow it and we finish shooting on time,” they say, it is very simple.
Whatever was useful was the pre-disjunction he did with Deepak Sivan. “We have designed sequences with animatics. Our stunt director Shravan Satya also did anmetics for quarrels. That is why stunts look sleek,” he explains.
The series is large when talking about music with 25 tracks composed by Varki and Soraj Santosh. “Music is always an integral part of my script. I cannot imagine the scenes without it. In this case, it was a cooperation, which reached a sweet place, where we could react to each other. They were fearless and contributed a big time. I was not particularly like a style or soundscape.
Meanwhile, he continues to follow his dream of scoring music someday. “I’m crazy on that front!” He laughs.
Sambhu and Sachin Joseph Emphasis Nalra Sangham Or History of 4.5 gangs
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While the scenes of the colony were shot on a set in Kothamangalam, other places were Kochi, Idukki, Ilvezpunchira, Tabi, Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai.
Darshan Rajendran in Emphasis Nalra Sangham Or History of 4.5 gangs
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Reacting to criticism about bypassing female characters – 4.5 gangs who as Darshana Rajendran, who takes 4.5 gangs, takes Zarin Shib as a lover of Manian, and Sandhi Balachandran Kingini, as a childhood love of Erikuttan, says, he says, “if a sequel is not.”
The farmer said that Santhi [currently in the limelight post the success of Lokah in which she was the co-scenarist] Her character contributed a lot to Kingini. “I wrote him as someone who digs Arikutana. But while making, he gave me the reason why he decided to get Ericuton out of his life,” he says.
And what was the reason behind his cameo as a solution, superstar, who is a major character in the series? “Out of need! This character was to be named after a popular Tamil actor, but we did not get the right to use the name. The team asked why I can’t do this and save all the troubles. Sony approved and we move forward with it. Otherwise, I am not interested in working.”
Their upcoming project is Mastishka Maranam With Rajisha Vijayan, Divyaprabha, Niranj, Vishnu Agastha, etc., there are reports that he is planning projects with Mohanlal and Mamooty.
History of 4.5 gang is streaming on Sonliv