In 2013, Goli Soda was an exception. Not only was it celebrated by the critics, it earned, says its director Vijay Milton, about 14 times its investment.
Beyond all the monetary gains and critical acclaim, it also seems to have launched several careers.
“While I have managed to bag actor Vikram’s next,
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Despite being a small venture,
“We used five cameras to capture, say, a lorry transporting vegetables in Koyambedu. We would shoot from multiple angles because we couldn’t reconstruct the environment and ambience.”
He’s reluctant to talk about his next with actor Vikram for the simple reason that Shankar’s
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But, he says, the new film is not a regular ‘commercial film’. “It is not a film that can be slotted under the label ‘commercial film’. It is a realistic film, much like Goli Soda ,” he says.
What did Vikram expect from the filmmaker?
“After watching Goli Soda , he wished me well. When I told him that I have been trying to narrate a script to him for the last five years, he immediately asked me to come over to his house in the night. Over a couple of hours, he said that he wanted to do the film. Perhaps, he was expecting a raw, gritty film but he got something radically different,” he says.
Though it has been reported earlier that actor Vikram is playing the role of a truck driver, the filmmaker neither confirms nor denies the report.
However, Milton revealed that bringing back the smart-looking Vikram on the screen was his biggest challenge.
“After I , I was very sure that he should be showcased as good-looking, like in the early stages of his career. He had lost a lot of muscle working in Shankar’s film and I wanted to make him look like he did in Bala’s Sethu . I think I have achieved that.”
The director of Goli Soda says his movie 10 Endradhukkula with Vikram, is not a regular ‘commercial film’