With a soulful story

Looks like it is the time of campus movies in M’town. After hit flick Aanandam, the very next to reach theatres is Dhyan Sreenivasan-starrer Ore Mukham. The trailer and song have been trending on social media since they were released on YouTube. Director Sajith Jagadnandan, however, reveals that the film was made after a four-year-long pre-production.

“It was around four years ago that I came across the screenplay of the film written by Deepu S Nair and Sandeep Sadanandan. I approached Dhyan in the first quarter of 2014, a few months after his debut film Thira was released,” he remembers the pre-production.

Sajith says that he was not at all interested in soulless films. “I started my career assisting Shaji Kailas sir in Alibhai. Later, I worked with Diphan chettan in Puthiya Mukham and then, S.P. Mahesh in My Big Father.

“Always, my aim was to do a good film with established cast and crew. In fact, that’s why I waited all these years to come up with this film without changing the cast and technicians I had fixed while planning the project,” says the director.
He admits that he approached many producers with this subject.

“Though many of them liked it, they suggested many changes in the crew. You can expect such interventions in the project of a newcomer. But I was not ready for that as I was confident about my project. More than that, I did not hide the actual budget to any producer though it was comparatively big,” he says.

Ore Mukham, he says, is a college-based suspense crime thriller. “It deals with the characters who studied in a college during 1986-87 and their current situation. More than a crime thriller, it can be termed as an emotional thriller as the emotions have that much importance in this movie. If I am right, this is the first film in Malayalam which uses different actors for the same role, when they are being shown in different periods. That means no actors will appear with makeover to enact same role shown in two periods.”