Producer Balaji Prabhu, who has experienced various aspects of the Tamil cinema production industry, recently participated in an interview and openly shared some of the horrors that go on behind the scenes in the world of cinema. Some painful experiences and heartbreaking truths have emerged from his conversation.
In this interview, the moderator asked, “A director who attended an audio launch event told him that a famous actor had been listening to the story for two years and then refused to act in his film. It is now going viral. Do you know who that actor is…”? To which Balaji Prabhu said that the actor was none other than “SJ Surya.”
Explaining this, Balaji Prabhu said, “It is very surprising. Because SJ Surya has a good name in the minds of the people. But this is something that everyone does in cinema.”
It is true that many people have a good opinion of SJ Surya. But what has shocked many is the fact that no one expected such behavior from him.
In this conversation, Balaji also spoke highly of Assistant Directors. He said, “Some directors and actors keep assistant directors as domestic servants. They do everything themselves, like their own housework, dropping their son off at school, and going to the grocery store.”
Balaji also criticized some producers and actors for not respecting the dreams and talents of assistant directors. Not only that, he said, “Some assistant directors lie hungry on the shooting. There are also those who have a nervous breakdown. Because they only drink tea without eating. They never get food.”
He also said that the culture of respecting assistant directors in cinema came only after the arrival of KS Ravikumar and Shankar. This interview given by Balaji Prabhu was seen as a display of the hidden life of the cinema world. Cinema is not just art; this interview, which was released to show that it is the lifeblood of many, has caused a stir in the cinema world.
