Katha Screenplay Darsakatvam: Appalaraju Page #2

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is making a film with you as hero.

He promised but his brother

entered the scene.

You said Ramgopal Varma

promised to give you a break.

After the flops of films 'James'

and new 'Shiva',

he stopped films with new faces.

How come you're here?

l've decided to become a director.

Are you still mad about making films?

lt's not an ordinary matter

to become a director.

lt's more than enough if director

has a soft heart to understand films!

'Mayabazaar'! 'Devadas'!

'Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi'!

'James Bond' 'Adavi Ramudu'

'Shankarabharanam'

Even after watching such great films,

learning from it and if l can't

make a film better than it,

it's useless to become a director.

'Mayabazaar' 'Devadas'

'Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi' 'James Bond'

'Adavi Ramudu' 'Shankarabharanam'

'Yaadon Ki Baraat' 'Titanic'

l'll make a try, l'll over ride it...

l'll make people forget it...

l'll direct films...l'll make films...

l'll rock the box-office collections...

l'll teach acting to Kamal Haasan...

l'll change the style of Rajinikanth

smoking cigarettes...

l'll make Chiranjeevi to dance

to my innovative new steps...

l'll train Balakrishna to beat

the thighs...

l'll make a silent film with

dialogue king Mohan Babu...

l'll turn Tollywood into

Hollywood not Bollywood...

Appalraju is a big boast...

l'll give mega hit film

than 'Pokiri' to sexy lleana...

l'll give a blockbuster hit better

than 'Arundhati' to Anushka...

l'll charge up charming Charmy...

l'll take pretty Priyamani

from bottom to top...

l'll make 'Rangeela' differently

with girl-next-door...

l'll show you what story,

screenplay and direction is...

Seeing your confidence l feel you'd

become a director before l'm a hero.

There's a big lock to stop your entry

into this magical world of films.

There's a key to every lock.

Many thousands of keys

like me couldn't enter it.

l'll make a new key to that

lock with my script Nayaki.

Just show me a way,

l'll push ahead against all odds.

Today there's audio release

function of film 'Kottukundam Raa'.

l'll manage to get passes to it.

Look! Director Rajamouli is coming!

Come, let's meet him.

What's there to meet a director?

As if you're a great director.

You stay here,

l'll make a courtesy call.

Are you producer's guest?

No sir.

My name is Appalraju.

l'm here with a friend.

Who are you?

Are you the producer, sir?

l'm the Man Friday to all of them.

l was little harsh without knowing

who you were, sir!

l never heard about you, sir.

Never saw your photo

in magazines or TV.

Only if l get photographed, right?

l hate media and publicity.

l'll keep them away from me.

l'm here to become director, sir.

l've a script of Nayaki,

a great tragedy story.

lt's a heroine oriented subject.

lf you listen to my story,

l'm sure you'll agree that

it's more tragic than Devadas.

Story is the lifeline of the film.

You said it great sir.

While watching film in Amalapuram

Ramba theatre, l too had same thought.

l've one more belief sir.

People immediately latch up

entertaining films.

But keep tragedy films in

their hearts forever.

lt has long life, sir.

lf you read my Nayaki script,

you'll agree it's more tragic

than Devadas, sir.

Read it sir.

When can l meet you after

reading the script, sir?

Tomorrow morning...no...

Mahesh Babu has invited me

to lunch in his home.

Day after tomorrow...

l'm going to Chennai.

Rajinikanth has called me.

l've already postponed it twice.

You please do one thing.

Meet me on Saturday.

l've become a director, almost!

l got an appointment with Raki.

- Who is this Raki?

He's the Man Friday to

all these producers.

Their office boy?

He's the man behind their success.

They're not there without him.

Never heard his name.

He stays away from media and publicity.

You said Allu Aravind, Suresh Babu,

won't l at least hear his name?

Who are you? Just a junior artiste.

What's your range and his range!

You're one among a lakh,

he's one for a lakh!

lt was good fortune that l met

him on my first day itself.

l've given him my script.

lf he likes it...

Come...shattering!

What a story! What a tragedy!

What a sentiment! What a drama!

But, second half is little...

What's the problem with the

second half, sir?

He'll tell you.

- He is...

He's Pushpanand, our company's

creative head.

He's distant relative of

90's super hit film's producer.

What's the problem in the second half?

lf hero dies, people won't watch the film.

That's it!

Our story is a tragedy,

only when hero commits suicide

unable to cope up with life,

audience in the theatre would get moved,

suicide is the highlight of our film, sir.

People will not watch

the film if hero dies.

Who are you to decide that people

will not watch film if hero dies?

'Marocharithra' 'Devadas' 'Premabhishekam'

'Gitanjali' were hits because hero dies.

Hero doesn't die in 'Gitanjali'.

May be not but in the other

three films, hero dies.

ln films 'Dilwale Dulhania Lejayenge',

'Pokiri' and 'Okkadu'

hero doesn't die,

so they were much bigger hits.

A film's hit or flop doesn't

depend on hero's death,

it depends of the story.

Hero committing suicide, not good!

How about hero dying in an accident?

Accident? What's the connection

between our story and accident?

Hero must commit suicide

in that situation.

lf he dies in accident,

the story will reach graveyard

not to our audience.

How about hero leaving home?

Where? To Peddapuram?

Or Amalapuram?

lt's not our point whether hero goes

underground or up above or to forest,

if hero doesn't commit suicide...

lf you don't understand it,

accept it graciously,

if you don't like it,

say you don't like it.

But for God sake

don't play with my Nayaki.

l'll not change even a word

in my script Nayaki.

You make another film.

- Hey you...why are you so tensed?

Didn't l tell your story

is extraordinary?

You must narrate to many

if it's a film script,

people would come out

with their own opinion.

Final decision is yours, right?

You've told your opinion,

but there's a little problem.

Not in your script.

All my money is stuck in real estate.

Unless the boom returns

l can't sell those lands.

l don't have money now,

my last two films were flops,

utter flops!

To make a film now,

we've to find a financier,

there's big shot by the

name Mastanaiah.

l sent him your script too.

He fell in love with it.

He has a girl friend.

You meet her.

Why should l meet his girl friend?

l mean she's mad about films.

You mean should l give her

a role in my film?

Meet her once...just only once.

Try to understand why l'm insisting it.

Meet her!

Did you read my script sir?

Where do l've time to read scripts?

l didn't but she read it.

Baby, you said you liked

a character in the story.

Baby...

Dolly, l'm not undermining your

beauty or talent,

l've a feeling that you won't suit

for the role of my heroine.

How about doing the other

character Shanthi?

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