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Hope and glory
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The National Award winning director looks beyond the now
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Success story K. Satish
About 4000 children studying in the CBSE stream commit suicide every year in India, this stunning piece of statistic hit K. Satish when he started researching for a story. The germ of the story was planted on the day his daughter returned from school
shocked at the suicide of her senior in Intermediate college within three days of her joining. “After one-and-half-year research it was no longer a sensational thing. It was a crime. As a society we were not bothered about it. We are caught up with small things.” Other parents would have wrung their hands in despair, but Satish managed to mount the story on the big screen titled: Hope, which has won the Best Film for Social Awareness.
At a time when directors improvise on the spot, Satish carries his storyboard with pencil sketches of the protagonists, dialogues and the sequencing. “I choose my subject, write the script and the dialogues myself,” says in his Ameerpet apartment. Movies were always on the horizon for Satish even as he handled his father’s business, did fashion photography, mounted live shows for TV channels. With Jayant Paranje as a classmate and Ram Gopal Varma as a video librarian movies obviously were in the picture. “They started off earlier, I couldn’t due to family constraints,” he says.
“I was a fashion photographer for four years. Then I freelanced for Gemeni TV doing mainly events including the R.P. Patnaik show on Vizag beach. Then I did Andhrawala audo show at Nimmakur that had chartered trains, buses, chopper, 40 cameramen and five lakh people.
I realised I can’t get bigger than that. But it was all part of a scheme to stay in touch with the industry. To network before I hit it out on my own,” says Satish.
“I wanted to make a commercial film. But nobody would give me a film. You either have to be US, UK-returned or someone with industry connections. So, I put my mind to making small films at least at the awards level. And here I am,” he says with a smirk.
Did luck play a part? “I don’t leave anything to luck. I take up a challenge and go for it. If you have courage of conviction and passion I don’t think we need luck,” he says. Not one to sit on his laurels, Satish has moved on.
“Right now I am working on a story which is a take off on singers. All the reality show singers can only imitate, not one of them is original. They have to get their basics right. But it is no documentary. It is an out and out commercial film,” says Satish aka Satyanarayana.
SERISH NANISETTI
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