Mysskin shares an emotional post on a theatre that changed his life
Director Mysskin is currently busy working on the sequel of his blockbuster horror flick ‘Pisasu’. Andrea Jeremiah plays the female lead in the film. Rajkumar Pichmani, who played the villain in the film Psycho, is all set to play the lead role in the film. The film is being produced by Rockford Entertainment. Karthik Raja is composing the music for the sequel.
In a moving post on Facebook, the director has written about his experience, which is surely to leave you with a bittersweet feeling. “This afternoon, I went to NVGP Theatre in Dindigul, and memories from the past flooded me. My father had taken me to this theatre when I was five. When we exited, he asked me how the movie was, and I replied that it was very good. He took me back to the queue and made me watch the film a second time. That was Bruce Lee’s Enter The Dragon, the first film I ever saw,” begins Mysskin, who adds that the thought of visiting the theatre struck him suddenly while staying in a nearby hotel for the recce.
In the course of time I moved to many towns and finally came to Chennai and became a city dweller. Two days ago I stayed at a hotel around Dindigul doing Location Scouting for my next film. Suddenly a rise in the mind. I took the car and came to the NVGP Theater. Came to the door and looked around. The theatre stood like a huge tree. The guard said, “Who are you, what do you want?. “I want to see this theatre owner.” The guard climbed the stairs. A majestic man six feet tall came down the stairs. “What do you want?” He asked. “Can I see a little theatre?” I asked humbly. “Is there any film here?” said. “This is the theatre that has run my life, sir.” Said Mysskin. “Who are you?” He asked then. “My name is Mysskin, the film maker.
“What film have you made?” He asked. The assistant director who stood next to me listed the names of all my films. “I don’t like any film.” That hit my arrogant head. I laughed and said “Amaya. Those are just normal pictures. A film like Enter The Dragon is yet to be made.” I entered as a five-year-old boy. I rubbed the chairs that were over a thousand in the dark. I sat in a chair and stared at the screen. A movie ran quietly with loud noises. Bruce Lee flew in the air and attacked the villains. The pillars I saw as a child inside the theater were intact. Two or three photos were taken by my assistant director. I come out of the theater again. I’m too old. “Why not a movie theater?” I asked one of them. “Time is changing. When he asked the owner why no film was being played at the theatre, the owner had told him that times have changed with TV, internet and piracy, and he was planning to stop screening films.
After having a coffee at the owner’s house, which was in the same compound, the director says he was asked for a selfie by a few youngsters when he stepped out. The owner and his wife, too, took selfies to send to their kids in America, he adds. “After saying thanks, I was about to get into the car. Suddenly, I stopped and asked him what he was planning on doing with the theatre now that he has stopped screening films. He said that the building would be brought down next week. With a heavy heart, I left the place. I might have left the theatre as a filmmaker, but the five-year-old boy is still standing in front of it, looking at it in awe,” Mysskin concludes.
