Deepak Dev
(This post is written by Raj Menon, who is a journalist with Indian Express. ) THE first thing that struck me about Santosh Sivan’s Urumi is its simplicity. Okay, so it reportedly cost around Rs 20 crore to make. Sure,the frames are rich, the sets lavish and the canvas grand. But Urumi is ,at its [...]
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For those of us used to seeing so called “Entertainers” like Twenty-Twenty or various mindless comedy movies, Urumi is a welcome change. It is a bold move from the producers to think of a big canvas movie, get a pan-Indian cast and film it as professionally as possible. The movie falls into a new category [...]
When it comes to period films, you have to be careful about the music. You cannot transport heavily orchestrated music from the 21st century into the 15th. It is anachronistic. When you look at Santosh Sivan’s Asoka, it had absoutely terrible music from this point of view. It also had the usual Mahive-Soniye dance steps [...]
Joshiy and his team have reworked their ‘Twenty-20’ template to make a half baked thriller called ‘Christian Brothers’. There are foreign location songs, superstar Mohanlal in a larger than life role, father-son sentiments, Dileep’s comic acts, twists which come in every thirty minutes, Suraj Venjaramooodu’s bufoonery, an interval punch similar to what we saw in [...]
Among the recent songs in Malayalam cinema, there are two songs to pay attention to. The first one is Nila Nila from Tournament sung by Karthik and Swetha, written by Vayalar Sharatchandra Varma and composed by Deepak Dev. First, the song itself is absolutely divine with the guitar in the backdrop. It is not very [...]
Update: We inadvertently left out some answers while publishing the second part. This error has been corrected. The updated answers are marked with an *. The Editors of varnachitram.com had a long conversation with Music Director Deepak Dev recently. We discussed his songs, sound design, orchestration, the equipment he uses and generally about how the [...]
The Editors of varnachitram.com had a long conversation with Music Director Deepak Dev recently. We discussed his songs, sound design, orchestration, the equipment he uses and generally about how the music industry. We woke him at midnight and fired off all these questions. He very graciously answered all the questions and spend more time with [...]
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