Kamal inspires young filmmaker

Debutant director Harshavardhan is unable to control his excitement, as he, along with his team, had an opportunity to meetKamal Haasan recently and to show him the trailer of his flick 'Aachariyangal'.

Talking about this meeting, Harshavardhan says, "Rajkamal Films International & IIT Madras conducted a 'Screen Writing Workshop three years back and I was one among the 250 lucky participants. Kamal's speech at the workshop was truly very inspiring. From that day on, I started to believe that new directors like me also should share the responsibility of taking Tamil cinema to the next level."

"Now, I have directed a film called Aachariyangal" which has a very novel script. We had decided not to have songs for this racy commercial thriller. I feel that I have derived this courage from none other than Kamal Haasan and desperately wanted to meet him to show my movie's trailer and to get his blessings."

The young director adds: "Kamal Sir agreed to meet me, after hearing that I had participated in his script-writing workshop as a student. I, along with my film's hero Taman Kumar and cinematographer Deepak met Kamal Sir on an afternoon. In spite of his busy schedule he spent a lot of time with us discussing our film and its concept. He liked our movie's trailer very much and appreciated us whole-heartedly."