Bachchan — 559
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“Now, almost 4 months gone by, to be sanitized in a sound recording studio, with just a microphone above and the soundtrack of the audio in your ear through ear phones, it is a daunting task to recreate all that we did, with the same performance and color that is being shown on screen. More so in a film such as PAA, where we do know the changed and different circumstances that the character undergoes.”
November 1, 2009 at 5:18 PM
[Many people I know who were skeptical about Paa as a conceptual matter have reacted very warmly to just this very initial bit of publicity. I’ve been quite excited since yesterday as well since my apprehension was of a different sort — whether this film would receive the right kind of ‘oxygen’ in terms of a campaign and whether it would be the right kind qualitatively. I have a sense now that I will be satisfied on both scores. To raise the question about your character in this film as the poster does and to ‘re-introduce’ you and so forth are all excellent strategies in this regard. Once again a great disservice was done to the film when that picture was unofficially taken by someone and leaked, assuming it wasn’t just you in the process of make-up and was actually the look for a scene or more.
I raised this point earlier but I am also intrigued by the fact that Abhishek is a politician here and wonder how this will be tied into your character’s condition. I detect allegory here, I assume Balki has also thought about this.
To those who suggest that it will be a disaster and so forth I don’t know who said so and why but even if this was said by people with the best intentions I think there ought to be some codes of conduct followed in discussion and while one is free to dissent on anything one can also be a bit more polite doing so. It’s one thing to voice that sort of sentiment bluntly away from this blog but here as one is engaging with you and your work one should be mindful of this and extend the sorts of courtesies that one would extend to anyone in other avenues of life. Not because one is being hypocritical but simply polite and courteous, even civil. I am of course not encouraging ‘fan talk’ in saying this. I have been a naysayer on so much as everyone here knows. But perhaps I am also a little old-fashioned in insisting on etiquette.]
November 1, 2009 at 5:22 PM
[In terms of the dubbing process you have invoked and the psychological problems associated with getting into the mind of the character after the event.. doesn't an actor who dubs for his films die twice for each film? Once when he lives with the character and then 'sheds' it.. the second time when he (or she) resurrects the same to dub for it, only to bury it once more...
Then again don't these 'specters' always stay with one?]