N Prakash : A Spotlight on a Rising Filmmaker
Mr N Prakash is from a middleclass family and youngest son of his family. In college days, he started making short films and doing his best to bring it to the audience.
He always liked to make films starting from the skits that he did from his childhood days in his apartment functions and started making short films in college days from which he learned the craft, and then he participated in naya iyakkunar show and won the runner up prize which helped him to get his debut movie.
He haven't worked as an assistant director before but he got to work with director Vetrimaran while he was participating in nalaya iyakkunar, his comments and feedbacks greatly helped him to improve his direction
He has his interest in action comedy and mass entertaining action films but he also likes to try different types of genres in his upcoming movies.
Building strong relationships with actors:
Talking about scripts and building conversations, he said that other than work the personal bonding we develop with actors help a lot but still we need to be patient and bring out the best from actors. It comes with experience, there is no special technique just be yourself and friendly with the actors and they will return the favour.
Challenging scene :
There was a scene which involved demolishing an atm machine in his debut movie "Kudimahaan" and it involves lot of crowd and rain effect , to make things worse they can't switch on mic due to the permission issue of shooting location. As he planned things well in advance and visited the site couple of times and his assistants did a great work they were able to tackle the difficulties they faced.
The film was released on 17 March 2023 and got rave reviews from critics and audience, as it is Well made Comedy entertainment movie.
Rejection and criticism:
To cope with rejection and negative feedback he said, "Its part of the parcel i don't break my head with rejection i will simply move ahead and work towards my next opportunity."
He always welcomes criticism and hear their thoughts out and revisit them and if its really something that he need to work on and improve then he will work on it and will try to improve it.
Handling stress and maintaining focus:
It’s stressful but he would always keep calm and maintain cool attitude, so that they will know this is a stressful job but the passion they have for it keeps them going.
