Writer-assistant director Satish Varma has been in the Telugu film industry for a decade now. And he is all set to debut as a director with Changure Bangaru Raja.
“I treated cinema as entertainment and noticed the crowd cheering while the film was being screened. I thought becoming a director and narrating a story was a cakewalk,” he quips.
Earlier, producers used to prefer genres that were trending. But now, they prefer unique subjects as boundaries. Also, nativity factors have been erased.
Asked if learning the grammar of cinema writing in the process was easy, he said, “I happened to internalise a lot of stuff and acquired a fair knowledge of the craft.”
“Literature helps us in writing and it is mandatory for a story writer to have knowledge of literature.” He also points out that the depth of literature helps us in judging cinema.
“In the beginning, I would do a post-mortem. In this process, I learnt that it is a waste of effort. In a theatre, you can’t predict which scene would go down well with the crowd and which won’t.”
Karthik Rathnam of C/o Kancharapalem (2018) fame plays the lead here. Karthik Kanteshwar, an assistant of Peter Hein, composed the fights in the flick.
Renowned DoP Natti’s assistant Sundar is the cinematographer. Krishna Saurabh scored the music. Baba, who assisted Shekar Master in the past, is the choreographer.
Changure Bangaru Raja is a joint collaboration of Frame by Frame and RT Team Works. Senior actor Ravi Teja set up his own banner to launch and encourage young directors