The Oscar winning sound specialist Rasool Pookutty has joined the team of Mammootty- Hariharan- M.T Vasudevan Nair classic in the making Pazhassi Raja. The big budget Rs 25 crore film, originally being made in Malayalam will have a version in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.On Wednesday (April 29) the producers of the film Sree Gokulam Gopalan and his son Praveen held a press meet at Chennai�s Green Park Hotel to announce that Rasool Pookutty will be providing sound for this prestigious film.
Rasool Pookutty who is busy with two big Bollywood and one Hollywood film was initially reluctant to take up another assignment, as his hands were full. But it was Mammootty who convinced him to take up the project and do what best he can do for the project in limited time.
Said Resul: � For me it is an emotional moment to be part of a M.T Vasudevan Nair-Hariharan- Mammootty project. Right from my school days in Kollam I have been seeing their films and loved Vadakkan Veeragatha. Hariharan showed me some rushes of Pazhassi Raja, which impressed me and looked well crafted, that made me take up the assignment.�
Though details were not given on how they could incorporate new sounds into a film which has not been shot in Sync Sound (SS), a source close to the director says: �We will be recreating the battle scenes in Madikkeri in Coorg, and Rasool has promised to incorporate all the necessary sound in SS format. The important battle scenes in the film will now be recreated using Rasool�s technical expertise.�
Meanwhile the gripping story of the 18th century warrior prince of Malabar Pazhassi Raja.the first real freedom fighter in India who resisted the British rule is slowly but surely becoming an epic movie, the biggest ever project in the history of Malayalam films with a budget of Rs 25 crore.
The main actors in the film are Mammootty, Sarath Kumar, Suman, Thilakan, Jagathy, Manoj.K Jayan, Devan, Kaniha, Padmapriya and a few British actors. The film is being shot by cameraman Ramanath Shetty who did Kamal Hassan�s Virumandi, stunt scenes by Ravi Dewan who did Jodha Akbar, editing by the �master� Sreekar Prasad, art direction by T.Muthuraj and music by Ilayaraja. Now after Rasool Pookutty has joined the project, one can say it has an international look about it.
The film which was originally planned to be released as the big summer 2009 extravaganza, is now likely to release on October 2, as Gandhijayanthi- Ramzan release. Rasool will have to redo the sound, and after that there is going to be a lot of graphics and special effects that have to be incorporated into the film.
All this is sure to take some time. However one thing is sure Pazhassi Raja will be an epic classic sugar coated with entertainment ingredients. It cannot get bigger than this!
Best of luck.
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